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Postural Re-education in Low Back Pain

NCT00789204 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2009-09-22

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Summary

The Global Postural Re-Education is a global approach for the treatment of musculoskeletal disease. Using specific progressive posture for stretching particular shortened chain muscle the method wants to equilibrate the never-ending war between static and dynamic muscles by guiding the patient in a particular breathing pattern to maintain a correct posture and feeling it.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Global Postural Re-education

The treatment in Global Postural Re-education is a global approach that seeks to identify the biomechanical cause of the problem also in other parts of the body and involves actively the patient in the postural change. Using principles like causality, globality and individuality, the treatment consists of the use for one hour of progressive active stretching posture for specific muscular chain that are shortened. Every posture is maintained for 20 minutes with controlled breathing and the use of manual traction

OTHER

Standard Exercise Training

The exercise programme included passive lumbar flexion, pelvic tilt, strengthening of flexor muscles, strengthening of extensor muscles, spine mobilization and stretching exercises.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bologna

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francesca Bonetti, Laurea

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2009-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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