NCT02029131

Exercise and Low Back Pain

Effects of a Home-based Exercise Program on Low Back Pain in Employees

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 226 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hannover Medical School · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 67 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Evaluation of the effectiveness of an individually educated exercise program for the lower back at home in employees over a period of 20 weeks. We hypothesize that regular exercise for the lower back results in greater improvements of low back strengths compared to controls.

Conditions

• Healthy Volunteers With and Without Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise	Educated exercise training for the trunk 3 times per week, each for 20 min. Recommendation of additional fitness courses as offered by the local healthy insurance company.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2017-02-01
• First posted: 2014-01-07
• Last updated: 2017-02-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany