NCT02646280

Myofascial Massage in the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain

The Myofascial Massage in the Treatment of Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: the Experience of Contact

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Roma La Sapienza · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of an approach that combines massage therapy with elements of neurocognitive rehabilitation such as motor imagery and the words of the physiotherapist compared to a traditional massage therapy in reducing pain in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and to evaluate if and how the pain reduction is linked to the interoceptive awareness and which is the patient's ability to relax through the measurement of the hearth rate variability (HRV).

Conditions

• Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Massage therapy	Massage therapy as a treatment option to induce a relaxation and a reduction of pain and stress in patients affected by chronic low back pain.
OTHER	Neurocognitive rehabilitation	Provided through the association of motor imagery and the words of the physiotherapist with the aim of increasing the effectiveness of massage in reducing pain.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-10-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2016-01-05
• Last updated: 2016-05-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy