NCT02527252

Craniosacral Therapy in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Almeria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the current randomized clinical trial was to analyze the effectiveness of craniosacral therapy on disability, pain intensity, kinesiophobia, quality of life, isometric endurance of trunk flexor muscles, mobility, and oxygen saturation, blood pressure, cardiac index, and biochemical estimation of interstitial fluid in individuals with chronic low back pain.

Detailed description

Objective: To analyze the effects of craniosacral therapy on disability, pain intensity, quality of life, and mobility in patients with chronic low back pain. Design: A single blinded randomized controlled trial. Setting: Clinical setting. Subjects: Sixty-four patients (42 females) with chronic low back pain. Interventions: Patients were randomly assigned to an experimental group (craniosacral therapy group) or a control group (classic massage group). Main measures: Self-reported disability (Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire - primary outcome; and Oswestry Disability Index), pain intensity (a 10-point Numerical Pain Rating Scale), scale of kinesiophobia (Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia), isometric endurance of trunk flexor muscles (McQuade Test), lumbar mobility in flexion, and oxygen saturation, blood pressure, cardiac index, and biochemical estimation of interstitial fluid.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain
• Musculoskeletal Manipulations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Craniosacral therapy
OTHER	Classic Massage

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-10-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2015-08-18
• Last updated: 2017-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain