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Therapeutic Effects of Horticulture on Anterior Cingulate Cortex Activation in People With Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT04656158 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2025-11-20

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Summary

Chronic low back leads to a significant socio-economic burden. It is associated with physical and psychosocial deconditioning. Even a short "nature experience" has positive effects on the affective and cognitive factors involved in chronic pain. In the brain, the anterior cingulate cortex plays an important role in both pain and emotions. Exposure to a natural environment may decrease activation of the anterior cingulate cortex.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic horticulture on the decrease of activation of the anterior cingulate cortex in people with chronic low back pain participating in 2 sessions of 90 minutes of therapeutic horticulture and 2 sessions of 90 minutes of handiwork.

The investigators hypothesize that therapeutic horticulture may reduce the activation of the anterior cingulate cortex. The effects of therapeutic horticulture may be mediated through the double exposure to both nature and physical activity.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Physical activity involving exposure to nature: Therapeutic horticulture

2 sessions of 90 minutes of therapeutic horticulture and 2 sessions of 90 minutes of handiwork

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • URC-CIC Paris Descartes Necker Cochin

    collaborator OTHER

  • Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christelle NGUYEN, MD, PhD · Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-25
Primary Completion
2022-03-29
Completion
2022-03-29

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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