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Efficacy of Muscle Energy Techniques in the Treatment of Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

NCT05939024 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2023-08-16

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Summary

Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain is characterized as a tension, soreness and stiffness. Various studies, defined MET as a manual medicine treatment procedure that involves the voluntary contraction of the subject's muscle in a precisely controlled direction, at varying levels of intensity, against a distinctly executed counterforce applied by the therapist.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain, Mechanical

Interventions

OTHER

Muscle Energy Technique plus Conventional Physical Therapy

Post-Isometric Relaxation of the Muscle Energy Techniques will be applied to Spinal Stabilizers and Mechanoreceptors. Hold time will be 7 seconds with 5 seconds rest between two performance x 3 times /session. Whereas, Conventional Physical Therapy consists of hot pack, TENS, Ultrasonic along with stretching and exercises of back musculature.

OTHER

Conventional Physical Therapy

Conventional Physical Therapy consists of hot pack, TENS, Ultrasonic along with stretching and exercises of back musculature.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Lahore

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Prof. Dr Ashfaq Ahmed, PhD · University of Lahore

  • Rashid Hafeez Nasir, M. Phil · University of Lahore

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-01
Primary Completion
2023-07-15
Completion
2023-07-31

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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