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Comparison of the Clinical Effect on Common Low Back Pain of a Thermal Cure With Dry Rehabilitation

NCT06947863 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 74

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Summary

Objective: To compare the benefits, with regard to low back pain (LBP) symptoms, of a thermal cure and a dry rehabilitation treatment.

Methods: Randomized therapeutic trial including patients with LBP, randomly divided into two groups. Thermal cure consisted of underwater shower, massage-jet showers, hydro-massage, pool rehabilitation and peloid therapy. Dry rehabilitation consisted of analgesic physiotherapy, muscle strengthening and group physical rehabilitation. The primary endpoint was based on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) of pain at day 18 (Day 18). The other outcome measures were the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), the Short Form-36 (SF36) questionnaire and spine mobility. Follow-up was carried out for 12 months.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

thermal cure

The thermal treatment and physical rehabilitation therapy were administered at the same spa center of Jbal EL Ouest, situated to the west of the city of Zaghouan, 50 km from Tunis. Patients were accommodated in the care center for 18 days. Treatments were delivered in the morning on a daily basis, except on Sundays. The thermal treatment used hot, chlorinated and sodium water. Every day, the patients received 4 out of the 5 following treatments: underwater showers (15 minutes), shower-massage (10 minutes), hydromassage (20 minutes), swimming pool rehabilitation (20 minutes) and application of heated peloid (15 minutes).

OTHER

dry rehabilitation

The thermal treatment and physical rehabilitation therapy were administered at the same spa center of Jbal EL Ouest, situated to the west of the city of Zaghouan, 50 km from Tunis. Patients were accommodated in the care center for 18 days. Treatments were delivered in the morning on a daily basis, except on Sundays. The physical rehabilitation treatment was delivered in dry and included an analgesic physiotherapy based on electrotherapy (30 minutes) and muscle strengthening, as well as group rehabilitation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tunis University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ahmed Laatar, Professor · Rheumatology department, Mongi Slim Hospital, La Marsa, Tunisia

  • Alia Fazaa, Associate Professor · Rheumatology department, Mongi Slim Hospital, la Marsa, Tunisia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-03
Primary Completion
2018-04-13
Completion
2019-04-12

Countries

  • Tunisia

Study Locations

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