NCT03554746

Additional Gluteal Control Training for Low Back Pain With Functional Leg Length Inequality

Additional Gluteal Control Training for Low Back Pain With Functional Leg Length Inequality: A Ramdomized Controlled Trail

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent musculoskeletal disorder. A variety of exercise interventions which were designed as randomized control trails (RCTs) have been studied and shown effectiveness in improving pain and disability. These exercises typically focus on the abdominal and back musculature strength. However, many LBP patients did not show any improvement in their symptom after they carry out those exercise programs.

Detailed description

Low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent musculoskeletal disorder. A variety of exercise interventions which were designed as randomized control trails (RCTs) have been studied and shown effectiveness in improving pain and disability. These exercises typically focus on the abdominal and back musculature strength. However, many LBP patients did not show any improvement in their symptom after they carry out those exercise programs. Some authors consider that this type of low back pain may be caused by leg length inequality (LLI) in these patients, which resulted from poor gluteal neuromuscular control or muscles' imbalance. In consideration of few studies have been done for investigating the effects of gluteal muscles control training in LBP. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of additional gluteal muscles control training on improving functional LLI in patients with LBP. We hypothesized that gluteal muscle control training would be more effective in self-reported pain, and their functional disability would be improve after 6-week training program than control training group.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain, Recurrent

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	GC group	1. core stability training: hold 5s/rep, 20 reps/times 1. supine, pelvic posterior tilt with TrA contraction. 2. supine, pelvic posterior tilt and maintain bil. knee on 90 degrees. 3. All four position with leg raise 2. Stretching ex. : hold 15 s/reps, 5 reps/times 1. Hamstring 2. Quadriceps 3. Additional gluteal muscle control training: hold 10 s/reps, 20 reps/times 1st to 2nd: 1. clam ex. without resistance 2. single leg bridge with maintain bil. ASIS even level 3rd to 4th: maintain 1st to 2nd ex. with resistance 5th: <!-- --> 1. maintain 3rd to 4th ex. 2. single leg standing on rock board to maintain balance 6th: <!-- --> 1. maintain 5th ex. 2. lunge ex. without hip internal rotation
OTHER	CG group	1. core stability training: hold 5s/rep, 20 reps/times 1. supine, pelvic posterior tilt with TrA contraction. 2. supine, pelvic posterior tilt and maintain bil. knee on 90 degrees. 3. All four position with leg raise 2. Stretching ex. : hold 15 s/reps, 5 reps/times 1. Hamstring 2. Quadriceps

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-11
• Primary completion: 2018-07-23
• Completion: 2018-09-10
• First posted: 2018-06-13
• Last updated: 2019-09-19
• Results posted: 2019-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan