NCT01772433

Olive Oil Phonophoresis and Chronic Low Back

The Effect of Olive Oil Phonophoresis on Chronic Low Back Pain in Female Athletes: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ardabil University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is intended to evaluate the effect of olive oil phonophoresis on chronic law back pain in female athletes.

Detailed description

This study will enroll 60 female patients suffering from chronic low back pain. the study will run in single blind mode that only patients will kept unaware of treatment. The duration of treatment is 10 days. patients will be assigned randomly to olive oil or placebo group. every day, they will take phonophoresis on lower back using phonophoresis gel as placebo or olive oil as treatment for 10 day. the questionnaires will be filled in baseline visit and day 10. any side effect of drugs or technique will be recorded

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Olive oil	Phonophoresis with Olive oil for 10 day, daily
DRUG	Phonophoresis gel	Phonophoresis with base gel for 10 days, daily

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2013-01-21
• Last updated: 2013-01-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran