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Health Education vs. Health Education Plus Physical Therapy for Low Back Pain Patients

NCT00439764 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 680

Last updated 2009-05-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a brief educational program and of an additional program in physical therapy, for the treatment of low back pain in Primary Care of the Spanish National Health Service. This is a controlled, cluster randomized community trial.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

General health talk

Routine clinical practice and talk on general health

BEHAVIORAL

Handout of The Back Book

Talk on health of the back and handout of The Back Book

BEHAVIORAL

Back exercise

Routine clinical practice, talk on back health, handout of The Back Book and back exercise

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Consejería de Sanidad, Junta de Castilla y León

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Kovacs Foundation

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francisco M Kovacs, MD, PhD · Kovacs Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, 07012, Spain

  • Celia Albaladejo, MD · Consejería de Sanidad, 47071 Valladolid, Spain

  • Rafael del Pino, PT · Centro de Especialidades de Fisioterapia, 47014 Valladolid, Spain

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-03-31
Primary Completion
2008-08-31
Completion
2008-09-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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