NCT03172962

Effect of Strength Training for Chronic Low Back Pain Patients (IRMA20)

Effect of Strength Training for Chronic Low Back Pain Patients: Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 85 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Low back pain (LBP) is common in the population and has great socioeconomic consequences for societies across Europe and the United States. About a third of working-age adults have frequent LBP, and for about 10% the pain becomes chronic with consequences for work and leisure activities. A Cochrane review from April 2017 concluded that physical exercise is an intervention with few adverse events and positive outcomes on pain and function in adults with chronic pain. However, when scrutinizing the specific studies of the review there are large differences in adherence to the exercise interventions and consequently in the results obtained. Thus, there is a need for simple exercises that the patients can easily adhere to.

Conditions

• Musculoskeletal Pain
• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Strength training	Specific strength training exercises for the lumbar and abdominal muscles for 8 weeks
BEHAVIORAL	Usual care (control)	Will receive the usual care at the hospital

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-01
• Completion: 2018-11-01
• First posted: 2017-06-01
• Last updated: 2018-11-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain