The Effect of Myofascial Induction and Therapeutic Pain Education in Chronic Low Back Pain

Back Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Myofascial Induction and Therapeutic Pain Education in Chronic Low Back Pain

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03696979
• Other study ID #: 76678999
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 20, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 10, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: February 2020
• Source: Medipol University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of therapeutic pain education and myofascial induction therapy on pain and function in patients with chronic low back pain. In the literature, studies on myofascial induction therapy in patients with chronic low back pain are very limited and there is no study comparing therapeutic pain training.

Description:

Lumbar pain has become a major health problem which is growing and is very common in all societies and negatively affects the full well-being of the individual. It has been reported that 80% of the population experienced low back pain at any time in their lives. The prolongation of this painful process affects the physical, mental and psychological state of the patient and limits its daily functions. The acute or chronic pain determines the nature and duration of pain. Low back pain lasting 12 weeks or more is defined as chronic. In chronic diseases, lumbar pain, which is the first one, restricts the daily activities of the person due to current chronic pain or deterioration of functional status and causes loss of labor force.

Myofascial induction therapy is a therapy concept focused on optimizing function and balance within the fascial system. The approach aims at global recovery, local correction and painless body use.

Superficial procedures are directed to surface and / or local restrictions that can be directly detected by palpation. Deep myofascial induction therapy is a method that eliminates the limitations of the myofascial system and the three-dimensional pressures.

Therapeutic pain education is a training intervention that aims to reduce pain and disability by helping patients better understand the biological processes that support pain states. The neurobiology of pain and pain processed by the nervous system is explained to the patient in detail. Changes the patient's olab viewpoint to pain. For example, the patient believes that the cause of pain is caused by tissue damage. The patient who receives pain education understands that the cause of pain is the hypersensitive central nervous system. As a result, the patient's fear avoidance behavior decreases and he starts to move more easily. Because the sensitivity of the central nervous system will be alleviated, the perceived pain will decrease.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: February 10, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: September 20, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 25 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Between 25-65 years old

• Low back pain for at least 12 weeks

• Physical therapy in the last 1 month

• There is no other disease that may cause low back pain.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Stem pressure associated with pain

• Having severe discopathy

• Available compression fracture

• To have rheumatic or inflammatory disease that may cause back pain.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Back Pain
• Low Back Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Myofascial induction therapy
Myofascial induction therapy is a therapy concept focused on optimizing function and balance within the fascial system. The approach aims at global recovery, local correction and painless body use.
• Therapeutic pain education
Therapeutic pain education is a training intervention that aims to reduce pain and disability by helping patients better understand the biological processes that support pain states. The neurobiology of pain and pain processed by the nervous system is explained to the patient in detail. Changes the patient's olab viewpoint to pain. For example, the patient believes that the cause of pain is caused by tissue damage. The patient who receives pain training understands that the cause of pain is the hypersensitive central nervous system. As a result, the patient's fear avoidance behavior decreases and he starts to move more easily. Because the sensitivity of the central nervous system will be alleviated, the perceived pain will decrease.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Mehmet Unal	Kocaeli	Select...

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medipol University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mc Gill pain survey	The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) is a self-reporting measure of pain used for patients with a number of diagnoses. It assesses both quality and intensity of subjective pain. Seven words are selected from the following categories: dimension 1 to 10 (pain descriptors), three words; dimensions 11 to 15 (affective components of pain), dimension 16 (evaluation of pain) one word, and dimension 17 to 20 (miscellaneous) one word. Scores are tabulated by summing values associated with each word; scores range from 0 (no pain) to 78 (severe pain). Qualitative differences in pain may be reflected in respondent's word choice	8 week
Primary	Roland Morris Disability index	Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire[1] is designed to assess self-rated physical disability caused by low back pain. There are different questionnaires available, which differ from each other in the number of statements: 24-, 18- and 11-item questionnaire. The patient is asked to tick a statement when it applies to him that specific day, this makes it possible to follow changes in time. The end score is the sum of the ticked boxes. The score ranges from 0 (no disability) to 11, 18 or 24 (max. disability) depending on the questionnaire that is used.	8 week
Primary	Survey of fear avoidance beliefs	The Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) is a patient reported questionnaire which specifically focuses on how a patient's fear avoidance beliefs about physical activity and work may affect and contribute to their low back pain and resulting disability. The questionnaire consists of 16 items in which a patient rates their agreement with each statement on a 7-point Likert scale. Where 0= completely disagree, 6=completely agree. There is a maximum score of 96.	8 week
Primary	Evaluation of mobility (finger ground test)	fingertip-to-floor (FTF) test as an outcome measure on the great majority of my patients presenting with lumbo-pelvic pain, for the simple reason that forward bending is one of the more painful and limited movements, especially in those with neural symptoms.; The FTF test has been shown to have excellent reliability without the use of standardized instructions and patient positioning.; It must be stated that the FTF test has been criticized for not measuring isolated lumbar flexion range of motion, with the argument that forward bending range is also based on pelvic, hip, thoracic spine, dural and shoulder mobility.	8 week
Primary	SF.36 Healthy life survey	The Short Form (36) Health Survey is a multi-purpose survey designed to capture adult patients' perceptions of their own health and well-being. Based on a much longer survey developed in the 1980's by Ware, J.E., the SF-36 has 36 items grouped in 8 dimensions: physical functoning, physicial and emotional limitations, social functioning, bodily pain, general and mental health.	8 week
Primary	Ultrasound examination of thoracolumbar fascia	thoracolumbar fascia Measurements and evaluation of TLF were obtained using single blind method when investigator didn't know any clinical information about a patient. Thickness of TLF was measured from both sides of a spine in the direction perpendicular to the skin. According to methodic of Langevin mentioned above TLF was divided to subdermal (SD) and supramuscular (SM). The general thickness of TLF is defined as the distance between deep border of the dermis and the superficial border of the muscle. TLF is hyperechogenic one or several layers (planes) structure which thickness is measured as a distance between the muscle and subdermal part of fascia.	8 week