The Effects of Dance Therapy in Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of dance therapy on balance, falling, body awareness and functionality parameters in patients with chronic low back pain. As a result of our study, it is thought that dance therapy will positively affect balance, falling, body awareness and functionality in patients with chronic low back pain compared to conventional therapy.

H 1: Dance therapy improves balance in women with chronic low back pain.

H 2: Dance therapy reduces the risk of falling in women with chronic low back pain.

H 3: Dance therapy increases body awareness in women with chronic low back pain.

H 4: Dance therapy increases functionality in women with chronic low back pain.

H 5: Dance therapy provides more improvement in the parameters investigated compared to conventional therapy in women with chronic low back pain.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain
• Chronic Pain
• Chronic Low-back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Dance Therapy Group

Dance therapy group patients are going to be treated 3 days a week for 8 weeks. Patients who started treatment are going to be randomly divided into groups that includes four individuals, due to COVID-19 pandemic preventions. Dance therapy is going to be applied with individualized choreographies specially prepared for the patients, taking the expert opinion of the dance therapist. Choreographies of different dance genres (step/aerobic dance, zumba, salsa, bachata, oriental etc.) are going to be used in the program. Sessions are going to be with the practitioner in a bright, clean, empty and noiseless room in front of a full-length wall mirror. The practitioner is going to participate to dance therapy throughout the sessions, allowing patients to imitate movements. Session duration is going to be 40 minutes. Patients will be given a one-minute rest period during music transitions.

OTHER

Exercise Group

The patients in the control group is going to perform conventional low back exercises. The program of the patients will start with stretching and warming exercises, and will continue with strengthening exercises. Exercises planed for control group; 1. Unilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise) 2. Bilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise) 3. Straight leg lifting with the aid of a sheet/rigid band 4. Posterior pelvic tilt 5. Bridge building exercise 6. Cat-camel exercise 7. Half shuttle in sagittal plane 8. Right and left rotational shuttle 9. Trunk hyperextension in prone position 10. Rotational exercise with hip-knee flexed in supine position Patients are going to do exercises with ten repetitions. As the sessions progressed, the number of repetitions will be increased.

OTHER

Pyhsiotherapy Modalities

20 minutes hotpack, 3-5 minutes ultrasound and 20 minutes conventional type Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to lumbar region of all patients in prone position.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hasan Kalyoncu University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-02-01

Primary Completion

2022-04-01

Completion

2022-05-30

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations