Effects of Taping & Exercise Therapy on Lower Back Musculoskeletal Conditions in Pakistani Patients

Lower Back Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Taping & Exercise Therapy on Lower Back Musculoskeletal Conditions in Pakistani Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05649774
• Other study ID #: KArshad
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 14, 2022
• Est. completion date: January 25, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: January 2023
• Source: University of Karachi
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Lower back pain has been one of the most frequently occurring musculoskeletal disorder among the females. This act as a global burden and is highly prevalent in our society. This pain can result in life long disability, loss of function and mobility among individuals. The female of the society suffers from lower back pain the most because of the under lying causes, prolong standing and stooping as well as because of hormonal changes in their bodies

Description:

After studying the prevalence of the lower back pain among the females of Pakistan, the investogator find the need to assess the type of their pain and find out the best way to ease their pains. The motive was to develop a treatment protocol whose effects last longer and is inexpensive for the management of lower back pain. Moreover, the investigator decided to study that which treatment protocol is better when compared to another and what is the role of sham treatment when given to the patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: January 25, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 20, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 28 Years to 38 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Females who were willing to participate.
• Participants with nonspecific lower back pain will only be included and screened through the screening questionnaire.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Post-menopausal women
• Females with any diagnosed co-morbidity.
• Back pain progressive to any neurological deficit
• Sustained or increased back pain with loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss accompanied with fever, nausea and chills
• With any known spinal or lower back pathology
• Tumor of the spine
• Any underlying diseases of spinal cord (i.e, ankylosing spondylosis, spondolisthesis)
• With any steroid therapy for lower back pain in the past three months
• Any inflammatory rheumatic disease
• Sensitive skin or any skin allergy or dermatological condition
• Any rehabilitative services taken for the lower back pain in the past two months
• Rejection to manual conatct

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Back Pain
• Disease
• Low Back Pain
• Lower Back Pain
• Musculoskeletal Diseases
• Musculoskeletal Diseases or Conditions

Intervention

Procedure:
• Therapy
Only Myofascial Release will be provided
• Taping technique
Only Kinesiotaping will be provided
• Therapy with taping
Myofascial release will be provided followed by Kinesiotaping
• SHAM
Placebo Treatment will be given

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Pakistan	Al-Tibri Medical college and hospital	Karachi	Sindh

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Karachi

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Pakistan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Lower Back Pain	Numeric Pain Rating Scale	Change from baseline to week 3
Primary	Disability of lower back	Oswestry Disability Index	Change from baseline to week 3
Secondary	Range of Motion	Flexion, Extension and Lateral Bending (L and R)	Change from baseline to week 3
Secondary	Pain Pressure Threshold	Algometer was used to check the pain pressure threshold of Thoraco lumbar fascia, Gluteus Medius, Gluteus Maximus and Tensor Fascia Latae	Change from baseline to week 3
Secondary	Tissue Hardness	Algometer was used to check the tissue hardness of Thoraco lumbar fascia, Gluteus Medius, Gluteus Maximus and Tensor Fascia Latae	Change from baseline to week 3
Secondary	Quality of Life of patients with Lower back pain	36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)	Change from baseline to week 3