NCT01095783

Treatment of Low Back Pain in Patients With End-stage Renal Disease on Hemodialysis

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a physiotherapeutic intervention is effective in the treatment of low back pain in hemodialysis patients

Detailed description

Low back pain is a significant morbidity in chronic hemodialysis patients affecting about 1/3 of them. Among the physiotherapeutic interventions, the McKenzie Method (Spine 1983;8:141-4), has shown to be an effective approach to manage patients with low back pain. More specifically, it consists on standardized repetitive flexion and extension exercises of the lumbar spine. Thus far, there has been no randomized intervention testing the effectiveness of physiotherapeutic interventions in chronic renal failure patients on hemodialysis. In this study we selected four of their main proposed exercises (flexion in standing, extension in standing, flexion in lying, and extension in lying position) to apply three times a week for eight weeks.

Conditions

• Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	physiotherapeutic intervention	Twenty repetitive exercises (30 seconds per exercise) consisting of: flexion in standing, extension in standing, flexion in lying, and extension in lying position applied three times a week for eight weeks
PROCEDURE	control	The control group receive transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for 20 min at 50-100 Hz frequencies for the same time frame (Anesth Analg 2004;98:1552-6)

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2010-03-30
• Last updated: 2015-08-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil