Abbreviations:
CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN
body mass indexchronic low back painnumeric rating scalerandomized controlled trialshear wave elastographyThis research was supported by a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea (grant number: HF22C0123).Role of the sponsor: The study sponsor did not participate in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, drafting of the report, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication.The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.This study was approved by the Pusan National University Korean Medicine Hospital Institutional Review Board (PNUKHIRB 2022-12-002). We have obtained IRB approval regarding consent or assent, confidentiality, and other related matters.This study was registered with the Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS, How to cite this article: Kim Y, Kim J, Lee T, Kim E, Kim KH, Yang GY. Evaluating the efficacy of moving cupping for chronic low back pain using shear wave elastography: A parallel-arm, randomized controlled trial. Medicine 2023;102:31(e34067).