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Low Back Study to Compare Traditional Physical Therapy With Combined Therapy Protocol

NCT01236092 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2015-04-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The most common chronic low back pain conditions are a consequence of disc disease as well as muscular and bony etiologies. The discs degenerate and weaken, bulge and are pushed into the space containing the spinal cord or a nerve root resulting in severe pain. A common treatment is then surgery. Whole-body vibration combined with un-weighting traction and specific manual mobilization plus active therapeutic exercise seems to treat chronic low back pain by non-invasively firing muscles of the lumbar spine. The investigators are seeking to show such therapy reduces the need for surgery and significantly out performs traditional physical as the preferred conservative treatment.

Conditions

  • Radiculopathy
  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

conservative therapy - traction, vibration, exercise

10 weeks of therapy. 3 treatments per week the first 4 weeks and 2 treatments the final 6 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pneumex Corporation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Michael Wilson & Associates Health Care Consulting, LLC

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Dean Martz, m.d. · Inland Neurosurgery and Spine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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