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Filter by:Back pain during pregnancy is common with up to 90% of pregnant women experiencing either low back pain (PLBP), pelvic girdle pain (PGP) or a combination of both pains. Although pregnant women seek out various forms of pain relief methods such as pain medication, exercise, education, pelvic support belts, and chiropractic treatments, there is limited evidence with regards to the efficacy of these treatments. Recently manual therapists, such as chiropractors, have used tape in an effort to relieve pain from musculoskeletal injuries with varying results. In the pregnant population, there have been limited studies to date on the role of taping and pregnancy-related back pain and none of this research delineates the efficacy of tape with respect to the 3 pain patterns experienced by pregnant women.
Chronic low back pain remains a major public health issue. Low back pain is frequently associated with stiffness changes of the lumbar back muscles. The techniques which assess the stiffness of the back muscles are poorly reliable and do not allow the quantification of stiffness changes. Elastography (magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound) can be used to objectively and non-invasively quantify in vivo tissue elasticity. The aim of the investigator's study is to compare the stiffness in the main lumbar back muscles (i.e. the erector spinae and the multifidus) by using magnetic resonance elastography and shear wave elastography.
The Mezieres method was born in France with the physiotherapist Francoiçe Mezieres, who in the middle of the previous century began a series of observations that led her to rediscover body characteristics to understand it in a revolutionary way. Among the most important contributions is the first description of muscle chains, from which different global physiotherapy techniques have emerged. The method also proposes a form of intercorporal relationship different from that used in classical physiotherapy and gives way for people who receive this treatment to improve their body disposition and make use of their body in a conscientious manner. From this, in the present study we try to understand this method as one of the ones that promotes the "Use of self". In addition to identifying other aspects related to the meaning of the corporal intersubjectivity for the physiotherapist and for the person being treated, looking for the subjective construction of effectiveness and determining the objective effectiveness by means of objective measurements of the body. The present research project use a mix method, it aims quantify the bodily benefits when applying the method and understand from the subjectivity the implications for the self during the body activity of the Mezieres Method. The study will be mixed and in parallel with 82 people diagnosed with mechanical back pain. Three assessments will be made: one initial, one at the end of the intervention and one last follow-up six weeks after the end of the treatment. The tests to be used will assess pain, functional limitation related to low back pain, quality of life related to health, flexibility, range of motion and posture. For the intervention, participants will be divided into 2 groups, group one will receive Method Mézières and group two will receive conventional physiotherapy according to the protocols of a clinical institution in Bogotá. Parallel to the intervention, the participating individuals and physiotherapists will keep a field diary that will facilitate the understanding of the body experience by performing the method studied. At the end of the study, it is intended to know the objective effectiveness by means of the comparison made in the two groups in the variables studied. In addition, an interpretation of the body experience is expected when performing the Mezieres Method in comparison with conventional physiotherapy. This interpretation of hermeneutic character will revolve around the theoretical construction of the "Use of self"; This concept is recognized as a technology of the self that will be pursued through the Mézières Method. By promoting the "Use of self" the person can recognize their body and appropriate what happens with their locomotor system, decreasing the symptoms of pain and improving the prognosis of care for people who have these symptoms.
The investigators propose to carry out a study evaluating the effectiveness of the MDT method (mechanical diagnosis and therapy) in the subacute phase of common low back pain. Few studies have specifically evaluated the effectiveness of the MDT method in the subacute phase, a phase that appears to be crucial before the chronicization of low back pain. The main objective of this study will be to evaluate the pain of patients managed by the MDT method. The analysis of the main criterion (Visual Analog Scale) will be done using a type individual clinical trial specific: the Single Case Experimental Design or SCED in lines of multiple bases. This type of study makes it possible to carry out a comparative test on a single subject acting as its own witness in order to obtain an acceptable level of evidence response for that particular patient.
The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence of back pain in preclinical second year and clinical fourth/fifth year medical students at the University of the West Indies; to assess their knowledge, attitude and practice of good spine health; and to determine the outcome of a standardize spine exercise program on one group, the clinical second year medical students, using a prospective randomized control design.
The STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) has been used in different healthcare settings in order to stratify the management of patients with low back pain. However, to date, no study has investigated the feasibility of implementing the SBST in emergency departments. The objective of this study will be to test the implementation of the SBST in the stratification of patients seeking care in emergency departments.
This study will be conducted to determine the effects of slump stretching vs lumbar mobilization with exercises in relieving non-radiculating low back pain. There will be two groups; Group I will receive Slump stretching along with standardized exercises and Group II will receive Lumbar mobilizations along with standardized exercises.
The present study is aimed to assess the LTP-like pain amplification in chronic low back pain patients to explore the central and peripheral effect for pain LTP.
To evaluate the diagnostic performance (sensitivity, specificity, Negative and positive predictive value) of skeletal co-registered SPECT/CT imaging in the detection of the etiology of low back pain in adolescent and adult patients
The TOPS™ SP System is intended to provide stabilization in skeletally mature patients. The system is designed to afford motion of the spine segment without fusion. The pur0pose of this prospective clinical study is to establish the safety and effectiveness of the TOPS™ System, when used following decompression, in the treatment of lower back and sciatic pain.