Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00439764
Health Education vs. Health Education Plus Physical Therapy for Low Back Pain Patients
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 680 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Kovacs Foundation · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The primary purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a brief educational program and of an additional program in physical therapy, for the treatment of low back pain in Primary Care of the Spanish National Health Service. This is a controlled, cluster randomized community trial.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | General health talk | Routine clinical practice and talk on general health |
| BEHAVIORAL | Handout of The Back Book | Talk on health of the back and handout of The Back Book |
| BEHAVIORAL | Back exercise | Routine clinical practice, talk on back health, handout of The Back Book and back exercise |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2007-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2008-08-01
- Completion
- 2008-09-01
- First posted
- 2007-02-26
- Last updated
- 2009-05-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Spain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00439764. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.