Mental Imagery Enhances Proprioception in Patients With Low Back Pain

Low Back Pain Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Effect of Mental Imagery in Improvement of the Repositioning Accuracy and Proprioception in Patients With Low Back Pain

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01469949
• Other study ID #: LEBUNIV001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 7, 2011
• Last updated: November 9, 2011
• Start date: May 2011
• Est. completion date: July 2011

Study information

• Verified date: November 2011
• Source: Lebanese University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Lebanon: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Mental imagery has been used in a variety of pathological instances in support to classical therapeutic treatments. The aim of the present study was to observe the effect of internal Kinesthetic and external Visual Imagery to improve proprioceptive feedback in low back pain. Fifty-five subjects with a history of low back pain were included in two experimental groups who used mental imagery and one control group who did not. The results showed the effectiveness of the Internal Kinesthetic Imagery to improve the accuracy of repositioning of lumbo-sacral spine that may subsequently improve the quality of the proprioceptive input. The possibility to use effectively mental imagery, as a part of proprioceptive rehabilitation process, is the principal outcome of this study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 55
• Est. completion date: July 2011
• Est. primary completion date: June 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 21 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects suffering from common non-specific low back pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Recent history of inner ear infection causing associated balance or coordination problems

• History of cerebral trauma followed by unresolved neurosensory symptoms

• Recent history of vestibular disorder and previous spinal surgery

• An involvement in specific balance or stabilization training during the 6 months prior testing. Patients taking pain medication were excluded from the study.

Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Back Pain
• Low Back Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Watching or imagining movement
Mental imagery are administered in two forms : kinesthetic when subjects imagine the movement of flexion and extension of the lumbar spine and Visual when subjects watch a video of a third person doing the flexion and extension movement

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Lebanon	Center of Physical Therapy	Beirut	Hadath

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lebanese University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Lebanon, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Accuracy of Lumbar Spine Repositioning	Before and after the intervention (Kinesthetic or visual Imagery)	2hours	Yes