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Assessment of Chiropractic Treatment: Strength and Balance

NCT02670148 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2019-03-28

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Summary

This study is a randomized controlled trial designed to compare the effects of 4 weeks of chiropractic care to a waitlist control group on measures of strength, balance, and endurance in military personnel experiencing non-surgical low back pain.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Chiropractic manipulative therapy

We will set an a priori treatment schedule of 8 visits at a frequency of 2 visits per week over a 4 week period. CC participants will receive chiropractic manipulative therapy (CMT). CMT procedures can be broadly divided into two types, thrust and non-thrust. Thrust CMT is a high-velocity low-amplitude procedure characterized by a single, short duration thrust (ranging from 100 to 500 ms) of low amplitude force applied to a target joint that often results in an audible sound, or cavitation. Non-thrust CMT employs low-velocity and often repeated joint movements of varying amplitude. In the event that no CMT treatment is clinically indicated, treatment will not be provided.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Palmer College of Chiropractic

    collaborator OTHER

  • Samueli Institute for Information Biology

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ian Coulter

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ian Coulter, PhD · RAND

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-30
Primary Completion
2019-02-14
Completion
2019-02-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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