NCT02422693

Aquatic Exercises for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Aquatic Exercises Versus Aquatic Exercises Associated to Deep Water-running for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Estadual de Londrina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to compare the effect of aquatic exercises (AEG) to the aquatic exercises plus aerobic training (deep-water running) (AEDWRG) on functional status and pain in patients with specific chronic low back pain.

Detailed description

In general, the population will have at least one episode of low back pain during their lifetime, with recurrence in most cases. Several treatments have been proposed for these patients and the evidence is still not clear about the effectiveness of aquatic exercises when compared to other modalities of exercises in the water. This study will be a randomized controlled trial following the Consort-Statement principles. The subjects, aged between 20 and 50 years, after signing the informed consent will be randomly allocated to one group treatment: aquatic exercises (AEG) or aquatic exercises associated to deep-water running (AEDWRG). The duration of the protocol will be set at 12 weeks, 3x-week.

Conditions

• Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Aquatic Exercises	Exercises performed in the water.
OTHER	Deep-water running	It is a non-impact form of running executed in place in (higher than 2 meters) the water wearing a flotation belt. Heart rate is controlled by heart rate watch

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-06-29
• Primary completion: 2017-01-29
• Completion: 2017-05-10
• First posted: 2015-04-21
• Last updated: 2017-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil