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The Forgotten Role of Back Muscle Characteristics to Tailor Exercise Therapy for Recurrent Non-specific Low Back Pain

NCT05851196 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2024-02-28

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Summary

Patients with non-specific low back pain will be compared to healthy, age- and sex-matched controls to determine the most discriminating back muscle characteristics and to delineate possible phenotypes of patients with non-specific low back pain showing impaired proprioceptive postural control. Additionally, the group of patients with non-specific low back pain will receive a 16-week, high-load proprioceptive training program. The effects of this training program on the different back muscle characteristics and proprioceptive postural control will be evaluated.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain
  • Back Pain Lower Back Chronic

Interventions

OTHER

Proprioceptive training

A physiotherapist tailors the exercises to the patient's functional demands and pain- or fear-inducing activities. Guided by the therapist, patients look for ways to integrate the exercises into their daily life activities. Each week, patients receive feedback from the physiotherapist, and the training program is gradually progressed. The patients are instructed to perform the exercises daily, integrated into their daily activities, hobbies, and work. The program contains: (1) exercises to improve the sense of posture and movement, (2) exercises to correct the reference frame from which patients control posture and movement, (3) muscle control exercises, (4) exercises to increase variability in postures and movement patterns, (5) functionality: patients search for ways to correct and integrate alternative postures and movement patterns into their daily life, (6) high training frequency and high load, (7) focus on sensing, localizing and differentiating, rather than movement control.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • KU Leuven

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hasselt University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lotte Janssens, PhD · Hasselt University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-15
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2027-12-31

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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