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Gait in Low Back Pain Patients After Spinal Mobilization

NCT02645123 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2017-06-08

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Summary

Introduction: patients with chronic back pain as a result of degenerated disc disease, besides pain also present with impaired gait. The purpose of this study is to evaluate both the clinical data using clinical rating scales, such as Oswestry Disability Index Greek version (ODI), Numerical Pain Rating Scale for low back pain and leg pain (NPRS) and the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire Greek Version, and kinetic and kinematic characteristics during gait analysis in patients with chronic low back pain as a result of the degenerated disc disease (Disc Degenerative Disease), before and after application of manual therapy techniques.

Methodology: for the purposes of the study, 75 patients suffering from chronic low back pain were randomly divided into 3 groups of 25 each. Each group received five sessions with the first group receiving manual therapy treatment (spinal mobilisation), the second a sham treatment and the third, classic physiotherapy (stretching exercises, TENS and massage). To evaluate the effectiveness of each treatment, the visual analog pain scale, two questionnaires (Oswestry and Roland Morris) and also an optoelectronic system for recording and analysis of gait (kinetic and kinematic data) were utilized.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

DEVICE

TENS

Enraf-Nonius Sonopuls 692

PROCEDURE

spinal mobilization

passive physiological intervertebral movements and passive accessory posteroanterior mobilization

PROCEDURE

swedish type massage

petrissage, effleurage, tapotement

PROCEDURE

static hamstring stretch

static hamstring stretching

PROCEDURE

sham treatment

touching of the skin overlying the lumbar area

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Ioannina

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • GEORGIOS O KREKOUKIAS, PT, MSc, PhD · University of Ioannina

  • IOANNIS D GELALIS, MD, PhD · University of Ioannina

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
78 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-12-31
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2014-11-30

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