View clinical trials related to Chronic Low Back Pain.
Filter by:Our aim is to assess usability and compliance of a wireless pedometer for monitoring step count after a lumbar epidural steroid injection for the treatment of radicular pain in low back pain patients. Our main hypothesis is to demonstrate pedometer measured step count can be used to measure efficacy of pain interventions.
Objective: The aim of this investigation was compare the effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and interferential currents (IC) on chronic low back pain. Forty-eight patients diagnosed as having chronic low back pain were randomly assigned to three groups: control (sham electrotherapy; age 47 ± 8 years), interferential currents (IC; age 48 ± 8 years) and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS; age 48 ± 8 years). Patients in all groups received 12 × 30-min sessions of the assigned treatment for a period of 4 weeks plus therapeutic exercises. Before and after the treatment, low back pain was measured using a 100-mm visual analogue scale and functional disability level was measured using the Rolland Morris Disability Questionnaire. Participants status was followed up 3 months after the end of the treatment.
Chronic low back pain is a common condition that can negatively impact quality of life and that lacks highly effective treatment options. The YMCA developed different iterations of a stretching exercise program as a community based treatment for low back pain from 1974-2004. Though anecdotally successful, the YMCA stretching exercise program(s) was not scientifically evaluated for efficacy and became obsolete. The purpose of the study is to test the efficacy of a previously popular YMCA stretching exercise program(s) for back pain. The stretching exercise program that will be studied is a collection of all the resources available for the YMCA stretching exercise program(s). The most recent criteria from a National Institutes of Health sponsored Task Force to study chronic low back pain were applied to this study.
PF-06372865 In Subjects With Chronic Low Back Pain
Purpose of study is to test in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) the effects of the Nervomatrix device on various clinical outcomes of patients with low back pain, as well as its mechanisms of action.
Up to now, only little research has been performed in tailoring treatment of patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). It would be interesting to evaluate a biopsychosocial intervention in patients with a moderate to high level of disability and in whom the contributing role of psychosocial factors to this disability is mild to moderate (WPN3-). Nowadays, these patients receive cognitive behavioral-based treatments in multidisciplinary rehabilitation settings but might also benefit from treatments based on these multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatment principles when provided by specifically trained primary care physical therapists. Therefore, the aims of this pilot-study are to evaluate the feasibility of a specifically for primary care physiotherapist developed biopsychosocial intervention ("Back on Track" intervention) in WPN3- classified patients, and to evaluate whether this "Back on Track" intervention results in a significant improvement in functional disability in this subgroup of patients.
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the benefit of biofeedback training on the capacity of chronic low back pain patients to decrease their lumbar paraspinal muscles activity during trunk full flexion and its relationship with changes in clinical outcomes. To do so, twenty patients with nonspecific mechanical low back pain will be recruited and all participants will take part in four sessions of supervised biofeedback training, consisting of 5 blocks with at least 12 trunk flexion-extension tasks. It is hypothesized that participants will have improved neuromechanical parameters with the biofeedback training and that this improvement will be positively associated to changes in clinical outcomes. This study will also allow for generation of preliminary data, in order to plan for a larger randomized control trial.
The purpose of this study study is to determine whether the Feldenkrais method is effective on pain control, functional recovery and quality of life in patients with chronic low back pain by comparing it with a Back School program.
The aim of the present study is to quantify the relative contribution of variables obtained during a physical fitness evaluation and a short screening questionnaire in determining the short-term and long term risk of persistent disabling low back pain in patients with chronic low back pain. It has been hypothesized that patients with higher physical fitness will present a lower risk of persistent disabling low back pain and so, a lower score on the questionnaire.
The purpose of this project is to compare "usual care" for chronic low back disorders in a rural setting (nurse practitioner/NP) to two different means of integrating Physical Therapy (PT) into a rural health care team: 1. in-person PT assessment, where the PT travels from an urban center 2. interprofessional Telehealth assessment where the local NP is joined by a PT via Telehealth. The project will evaluate health, systems and process outcomes, comparative effectiveness and costs of the three methods of assessment. The hypothesis is that an interprofessional Telehealth assessment with be as effective as an in-person PT assessment, but more effective than usual care.