The Effectiveness of the Massage and the Hypopressive Abdominal Gymnastics on Low Back Pain (MAS-GAH)

Summary

The main goal of this study is to get to know if applying both, massotherapy plus hypopressive abdominal gymnastics (H.A.G) will reduce the pain of chronic non-specific low back pain. It actually reduces the inability produced by the pain and improve the patient's quality of life as well as the join range of the lumbar spine, way more than these two therapies applied separately.

Conditions

• Low-back Pain

Interventions

PROCEDURE

GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY- HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC

The subjects of this group will receive an amount of eight sessions that will be applied within five weeks; four massotherapy sessions and another 4 of H.A.G. The three first weeks one session of each methodology will be applied, starting always with massotherapy (with sessions on Mondays and Thursdays or on Tuesdays and Fridays). On the fourth week a session of massotherapy will be applied on the same day as usual. And, finally, on the fifth week a session of H.A.G will be applied on the same day as massotherapy is applied.

PROCEDURE

GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY

The sessions will be applied for 5 weeks. The first three weeks 2 sessions per week will be applied (whether on Mondays and Thursdays or Tuesdays and Fridays), and during the remaining two weeks only a session will be applied per week, on the first day of the week same as applied before. Massotherapy technics will be applied all over the back, covering the thoracolumbar area as well as upper areas reaching the cervix and occiput. In particular, posterosuperior iliac spines, iliac crests, ribs, shoulder girdle and the entire spine (sacral bone- lumbar area-backbones-cervical vertebrae) and its attached tissues will be worked down. Massotherapy protocol will be applied by the physical therapist, always respecting the postural ergonomics. This enables the verticality of the body (avoiding the slopes) which makes work much easier thanks to the inertia triggered by the load transfer in the lower extremities in both sagittal and horizontal plane.

PROCEDURE

GROUP RECEIVING HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC

The subjects of this group will receive a total of 8 sessions of 30 minutes each; sessions will be applied for 5 weeks. The first three weeks 2 sessions per week will be applied (whether on Mondays and Thursdays or Tuesdays and Fridays), and during the remaining two weeks only a session will be applied per week, on the first day of the week same as applied before. The techniques applied are an assembly of rhythm, postural and breathing exercises that have to be done in a systematically. The physical therapist will check that all of the group subjects have assimilated properly the H.A.G and the breathing patterns from the exercises protocol. If they have, then the practical session which comprises 6 hypopressive exercises, can be started. The subjects must remain in each position between 10 and 30 seconds and repeat the exercise three times, with a rest period among each that will last at least 20 seconds.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Seville

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-04-30

Primary Completion

2016-06-30

Completion

2018-07-31

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations