Treatment of Chronic Back Pain With Focused Vibroacoustic Stimulation
Treatment of Chronic Back Pain With Focused Vibroacoustic Stimulation
Chronic back and neck pain is the most common chronic condition worldwide. Unfortunately, the
 current available treatment options are limited and largely unsuccessful, which is considered
 as one of the primary drivers for the high cost of back pain management. Systematic reviews
 show that the results of common treatments including pain medications, surgery, exercise and
 psychological therapies for back pain demonstrate inconsistent results and moderate
 improvement. Therefore, non-invasive adjunct therapies can be a useful addition to
 traditional back pain management.

 Focused vibroacoustic treatment for back and neck pain is a non-invasive procedure that
 applies low frequency sound waves to the spine (50Hz-110Hz), and has shown consistent and
 positive results in early clinical and animal studies. The goal of this project is to test
 vibroacoustic sound waves delivered to the spine in a double blind randomized controlled
 trial to demonstrate the efficacy of focused vibroacoustics in treating chronic back pain.

 Participants with back pain will be recruited and divided into a treatment and placebo group
 and will undergo treatment at a clinic over a one month period. Outcome measures will be
 collected before and after the intervention period. Placebo participants will be offered the
 full treatment without charge after the experiment is over.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Clinical diagnosis of chronic low back pain with a disease duration of more than 3
 months (further diagnostic results were not required)

 -  Aged 18-75.

 -  Scored at least 4/10 in pain scale (VAS or Numerical)

 -  Written consent

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Acute back pain

 -  Protrusion or prolapse of 1 or more intervertebral discs with concurrent neurological
 symptoms

 -  Radicular pain

 -  Prior vertebral column surgery

 -  Infectious spondylopathy

 -  Low back pain caused by inflammatory, malignant, or autoimmune disease

 -  Congenital deformation of the spine (except for slight lordosis or scoliosis)

 -  Compression fracture caused by osteoporosis

 -  Spinal stenosis

 -  Spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis

 -  Severe abdominal distension

 -  Smokers (more than 3 cigarettes per day or a history of severe smoking)

 -  Alcohol drinkers >7 glasses per week

 -  Previous spinal surgery

 -  Morbid Obesity

 -  Back pain from pregnancy

 -  Back pain from neurodegeneration

 -  Uncontrolled diabetics