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Cognitive Functional Therapy Compared With Pilates in Elderly Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT05480982 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2026-05-07

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Summary

There is evidence of three randomized controlled trials that face-to-face CFT reduces disability compared with active interventions for adults with chronic low back pain. The pandemic enabled the popularization of tele rehabilitation around the globe, but there are still no clinical trial testing the effectiveness of Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT) via tele rehabilitation for elderly people with chronic low back pain. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of CFT compared with Pilates, both via tele rehabilitation in elderly patients with chronic low back pain.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive functional therapy via tele rehabilitation

Participants in the CFT group will be treated by a physiotherapist with seventeen years of clinical experience and that has attended six CFT workshops with three of the international tutors of the method. She has completed 212 hours of training including workshops, patient examinations and a pilot study under the supervision of a physiotherapist with more than seven years of clinical experience in CFT. Another two physiotherapists, one with more than fifteen years and the other with more than ten years of clinical experience, and both with more than 106 hours of CFT training including CFT via tele physiotherapy, will complete the staff.

OTHER

Pilates via tele rehabilitation

Physiotherapist will have the freedom to judge about the exercises´ progression and the need of adaptation considering both the level of difficulty to perform each exercise according to the original proposal and the individual´s demands. The treating physiotherapists will have at least 2 years of clinical practice in Pilates and clinical experience in Pilates via teleconference.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centro Universitário Augusto Motta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ney Meziat-Filho, PhD · Centro Universitario Augusto Motta - UNISUAM

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-02
Primary Completion
2027-07-31
Completion
2028-12-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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