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Effect of Back School and Supervised Walking in Sedentary Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT00803413 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 119

Last updated 2008-12-05

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Summary

Do Back School and/or supervised walking improve reported pain and spine flexibility in sedentary women with chronic low back pain (LBP)?

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Back School Intervention

Patients were submitted once a week for 5 consecutive weeks to sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, and spine preventive care; 30 minutes of on-place supervised exercises for posture and spine flexibility (muscle stretching, relaxation, strengthening)

BEHAVIORAL

Supervised Walking Intervention

Patients were submitted once a week for 5 consecutive weeks to sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities; 30 minutes of on-place supervised walking in group.

BEHAVIORAL

Back School and Walking

Weekly sessions of 90 minutes including: 30-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, spine preventive care, and about physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities

BEHAVIORAL

Control Group

Weekly sessions of 45 minutes including lectures about: stress control, healthy nutrition (2 lectures), sleep hygiene and injury prevention.; beside the 2-page folder content this group received no other information about LBP, BS or walking all along the follow-up.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mario Ferreira Junior, PhD · Hospital das Clínicas - São Paulo University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-08-31
Primary Completion
2003-06-30
Completion
2004-03-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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