NCT01985776

Effects of Exercise Intervention in Patients With Spondylolisthesis Related LBP

Effects of Exercise Intervention in Patients With Low Back Pain Due to Spondylolytic Spondylolisthesis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Primorska · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The first purpose of this study is to define parameters of the trunk neuromuscular functions that are pathologically altered in patients with low back pain due to spondylolytic spondylolisthesis. The second and also the main purpose of the study is to examine the effects of exercise intervention on patients with low back pain due to spondylolytic spondylolisthesis. Our overall hypothesis is that specific exercise intervention will improve neuromuscular functions of the trunk in patients with low back pain due to spondylolytic spondylolisthesis.

Detailed description

Low back pain is known to affect a considerable portion (\> 75%) of the society, causing enormous financial burden for the healthcare systems. Exercise interventions incorporated into low back pain patients rehabilitation protocols are known as successful treatment strategies, but ore often focused on strength training and not on functional stabilization. Spondylolytic spondylolisthesis is one of the most known types of spine instabilities. To date, no studies examined the effects of exercise intervention on patients with low back pain due to spondylolytic spondylolisthesis. Research will be carried out as a cross-sectional study, where patients with spondylolytic spondylolisthesis will be randomly arranged in one controlled and two experimental groups. For the forth group healthy asymptomatic participants will be recruited. Exercise intervention will last 12 weeks with a frequency of three times a week and duration of 60 minutes per training unit. Exercise intervention will include congregated set of trunk stabilisation exercises, starting with simple isometric tasks. Dynamic and more complex movements will be added progressively to achieve whole body tasks involving fast and sudden movements. Neuromuscular functions of the trunk will be measured before and after the intervention.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain
• Spondylolisthesis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Exercise intervention	Functional stabilisation exercise for the trunk.
PROCEDURE	Exercise and e-stim	Functional stabilisation exercise for the trunk and electrical stimulation at the same time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-11-15
• Last updated: 2018-02-08

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Slovenia