Conditions: Back Pain Without Radiation
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 236
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary purpose of your participation in this study is to help answer the following research question, and not to provide you treatment for your condition.

Whether duloxetine once daily can help patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.

Patients who do not have their pain reduced by at least 30% by week 7 will be given 120 mg dose for the duration of the study. After the 13 week double blind period, patients randomized to placebo will switch to duloxetine 60 mg or 120 mg in the 41-week extension period.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: 30 mg, every day (QD), by mouth (PO) for 1 week followed by 60 mg, QD, PO, 6 weeks then 60 mg (responders) or 120 mg (non-responders), QD, PO, 6 weeks during the placebo-controlled phase, then 60 mg or 120 mg, QD, PO, 41 weeks during the extension phase arm 2: every day (QD), by mouth (PO), 13 weeks

Interventions: intervention 1: Duloxetine intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 30 mg, every day (QD), by mouth (PO) for 1 week followed by 60 mg, QD, PO, 6 weeks then 60 mg (responders) or 120 mg (non-responders), QD, PO, 6 weeks during the placebo-controlled phase, then 60 mg or 120 mg, QD, PO, 41 weeks during the extension phase intervention 2: every day (QD), by mouth (PO), 13 weeks

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