Valuation of the Low Back Pain Treated With Different Types of Active Exercises in Women

Summary

The purpose of the study is determine whether the Core Stability Exercise is more effective than the traditional Back School for low back pain (LBP) in women.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Core Stability Exercises (CSE)

The increase in intra-abdominal pressure stiffens and strengthens the relevant structural support around the spine, compacts the arthrogenic structures and in combination with abdominal contraction, it can encourage a rigid cylinder and stiffness to occur around the spine. The relevant anatomy in these type of exercises are deep muscles like transversus abdominous, multifidus or pelvic floor. The participants will have to do 10 different exercises. They will have to perform from 8 to 10 repetitions of every exercise, guided by a physical therapist. They will be recommended about making some series more at home, three days a week, when the treatment was finished.

PROCEDURE

Traditional Back School

The back school exercises are based in the traditional activity used for improve the back pain symptoms using the breathing with the stretching of the trunk muscles, the erector spinae reinforcement, the abdominal reinforcement or the postural movements. The participants will have to do 10 different exercises. They will have to perform from 8 to 10 repetitions of every exercise, guided by a physical therapist. They will be recommended about making some series more at home, three days a week, when the treatment was finished.

DEVICE

TENS

Used equipment: MEGASONIC 313 P4 (Carin). Application program number 15: analgesic TENS with stimulation of afferent fibers. Type of current: two-phase TNS. Width of the impulse: 70µs. Frequency of the impulse: 100Hz. Train: Not. Pause / pause activates: Not. Time of treatment: 20 minutes.

DEVICE

Infra-red

Used equipment: INFRA - 2000 (Enraf Nonius) with the following parameters: 230 V / 50-60 Hz / 1.2 A

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus

  collaborator OTHER

• University Rovira i Virgili

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Rosa Nogués, Pharm.D. · Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Rovira i Virgili University. Spain.

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-03-31

Primary Completion

2015-03-31

Completion

2015-10-31

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations