NCT01745939

Manipulation Effects on Abdominal Muscles

The Immmediate Effects of Thrust Joint Manipulation on the Resting and Contraction Thickness of Transversus Abdominis in Subjects With Low Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to understand how different physical therapy interventions affect the use of certain abdominal muscles in patients with low back pain.

Detailed description

Patients with low back pain will undergo ultrasound imaging of the lateral abdominal wall to measure resting and contracted thickness of the transversus abdominis muscle. Following the pre-intervention measurement, patients will receive one of two physical therapy interventions (side lying thrust joint manipulation or side lying non-thrust oscillations into slight rotation) which will have been randomly assigned. Immediately after intervention, ultrasound imaging will be repeated on the resting and contracted thickness of the transversus abdominis.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Lumbar Manipulation	Manual therapy intervention
OTHER	Sham manipulation	Manual therapy intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-08-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2012-12-10
• Last updated: 2014-11-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States