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Movement Quality and Balance Improvement in People With Chronic Low Back Pain Following Trunk Muscle Training

NCT06944730 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-04-25

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Summary

The goal of this project is to assess if Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) participant's movement quality and balance variables can change after training that decreases their pain and disability. It will also compare the difference between structural exercise (SE) and isolated trunk exercise (ITE). The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. What are the effect of the training on the participant's movement quality and balance.
2. What are the difference between different types of trunk muscle training on people with CLBP.

Researchers will compare SE, ITE and control. Control group will receive back school education that was shown not to be effective in reducing pain and disability.

Participants will:

1. Do home and in-lab based SE or ITE training, or maintain active daily living over 2 months.
2. Complete the pain and disability questionnaire and do several physical functioning tests while having their trunk and lower limb movement and muscle activation measured.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Structural Exercise

Multi-joint limb movement with force vector through the spine. The spine is held at neutral position

BEHAVIORAL

Isolated Trunk Exercise

Holding the spine in neutral position with no limb movement, with static loading through the spine

BEHAVIORAL

Back school

Patient education that has been proven to not be effective and has been used as control in past low back pain intervention studies

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Billy CL So, Prof. · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-01
Primary Completion
2025-11-30
Completion
2025-11-30

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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