NCT00789204

Postural Re-education in Low Back Pain

Effectiveness of a "Global Posture Reeducation" Program for Patients With Low Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Bologna · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Global Postural Re-Education is a global approach for the treatment of musculoskeletal disease. Using specific progressive posture for stretching particular shortened chain muscle the method wants to equilibrate the never-ending war between static and dynamic muscles by guiding the patient in a particular breathing pattern to maintain a correct posture and feeling it.

Detailed description

In some countries there is a physical therapy method called "Global Posture Reeducation" (GPR), which was developed by Philippe Emmanuel Souchard based on 20 years of clinical experience.The method consist to balance the miofascial tension probably responsible for an articular overloading. The method stretches the shortened antigravity muscles that are inside a different static muscles chains. GPR is a global approach that search the biomechanics cause in the near areas, and involves actively the patient in the postural and gestural changes.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Global Postural Re-education	The treatment in Global Postural Re-education is a global approach that seeks to identify the biomechanical cause of the problem also in other parts of the body and involves actively the patient in the postural change. Using principles like causality, globality and individuality, the treatment consists of the use for one hour of progressive active stretching posture for specific muscular chain that are shortened. Every posture is maintained for 20 minutes with controlled breathing and the use of manual traction
OTHER	Standard Exercise Training	The exercise programme included passive lumbar flexion, pelvic tilt, strengthening of flexor muscles, strengthening of extensor muscles, spine mobilization and stretching exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2008-11-11
• Last updated: 2009-09-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy