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Changing Lower Back Pain Through Virtual Reality

NCT05838924 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-02-12

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Summary

The main objective of this randomized controlled trial is to investigate the efficacy of a 6-week therapeutic exercise program, performed with virtual reality (VR) manipulating visual proprioceptive information during all lumbar movements in the different therapeutic exercises (experimental group), on pain and disability, kinesiophobia, range of motion (ROM), catastrophizing, quality of life, and physical fitness in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain compared to the same therapeutic exercise program without VR (control group).

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY + VIRTUAL REALITY

The VR therapeutic exercise program will be implemented for 6 weeks at a frequency of 2 sessions per week with the aim of improving pain and disability, kinesiophobia, range of motion (ROM), catastrophizing, quality of life, and physical fitness. This group will perform the 8 VR exercises of "Back School" by manipulating visual proprioceptive information during all lumbar movements. They will be performed in 2 sets whose intensity and repetitions will be configured and individualized by a self-reported rating of perceived exertion (RPE) through the Borg 6-20 scale. The appropriate training intensity is established with an RPE score between 13 and 17; for this reason, the first 2 weeks will work at an RPE of 14, the 3rd and 4th weeks at an RPE of 15; and finally, the last 2 weeks will work at an RPE of 16. The first 3 weeks will work without additional load, and the last 3 weeks will work with weights, increasing their weekly load individually.

OTHER

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The 8 therapeutic exercise program will be implemented for 6 weeks at a frequency of 2 sessions per week with the aim of improving pain and disability, kinesiophobia, range of motion (ROM), catastrophizing, quality of life, and physical fitness. This group will perform the 8 exercises of "Back School" without VR. They will be performed in 2 sets whose intensity and repetitions will be configured and individualized by a self-reported rating of perceived exertion (RPE) through the Borg 6-20 scale. The appropriate training intensity is established with an RPE score between 13 and 17; for this reason, the first 2 weeks will work at an RPE of 14, the 3rd and 4th weeks at an RPE of 15; and finally, the last 2 weeks will work at an RPE of 16. The first 3 weeks will work without additional load, and the last 3 weeks will work with weights, increasing their weekly load individually.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cardenal Herrera University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • JUAN JOSÉ AMER-CUENCA, PhD · Cardenal Herrera University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-25
Primary Completion
2023-12-01
Completion
2023-12-15

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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