NCT01562756

Patient Response to Spinal Manipulation - Pilot Study

Pilot for Patient Response to Spinal Manipulation (PRiSM)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 6 (actual)
• Sponsor: Palmer College of Chiropractic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In collaboration with the University of Iowa, the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research will conduct a pilot study for the purposes of testing equipment, finalizing data collection protocol, and training study personnel before conducting the full-scale trial.

Detailed description

In collaboration with the University of Iowa, the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research will conduct a pilot study for the purposes of testing equipment, finalizing the data collection protocol, and training study personnel before conducting the full-scale trial. Only feasibility data will be collected and reported for this pilot study. The full-scale trial, titled as "Patient response to spinal manipulation" (Trial registration: NCT01670292 on clinicaltrials.gov), is the Project 1 of the Developmental Center for Clinical and Translational Science in Chiropractic (Award No. U19AT004663). In the current pilot study, we test how research clinicians can treat patients under study measurement conditions and with equipment resulting in modified treatment procedures. This pilot study will also test spinal stiffness using 3 different methods on 2 study visits. We will also assess the function of low back muscles during standing and while bending forward on 2 visits. These measurements include placing sensors on the back with tape and measuring the electrical activity of low back muscles. Participants with low back pain are treated with side-lying high-velocity low-amplitude spinal manipulation by experienced research clinicians who are doctors of chiropractic. Specifically, we will recruit 6 participants who are 21 - 64 years old and have had low back pain for at least 3 months. Each participant will attend 1 baseline visit, 1 enrollment visit, and 4 treatment visits over a period of approximately 4 weeks. Following the baseline visit, participant eligibility will be determined. The enrollment visit will be scheduled on the same day as the first treatment visit. The following feasibility data will be collected: * \# of participants recruited * \# of participants consented * \# of participants enrolled * \# of participants who completed the study * Total duration of the study from launch data to the final study visit

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	HVLA-SM	High velocity, low amplitude spinal manipulation

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-02-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2012-03-26
• Last updated: 2017-07-31
• Results posted: 2017-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States