NCT04119466

Stabilizing Training in Degenerative Disc Disease

Stabilizing Training Effects in Relation With Progression Level in Young Degenerative Disc Disease Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates efficacy of stabilizing training of deep core muscles in the lumbar spine in degenerative disc disease subjects, considering the progression level of degenerative disc disease: protrusion or extrusion.

Detailed description

Degenerative disc disease (DDD) is one of the causes of low back pain, and contributes to increasing the socio-economic problem. Depending on the reason for the dysfunction, various classifications describing the level of advancement are used. Literature on the subject commonly uses the division into protrusion and extrusion of the intervertebral disc, as approved by the American Society of Neuroradiology. Stabilizing training is one of the forms of conservative treatment of lumbar pain, alongside manual treatment or techniques from the field of chiropractics or physiotherapy. It is thought that the proper stabilization of this region of the body is crucial for coping with pain. Therefore, the aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of stabilizing training of deep core muscles in the lumbar spine in subjects in the age of 20-35 years, considering the progression level of degenerative disc disease: protrusion or extrusion, on the basis of the clinical condition.

Conditions

• Degenerative Disc Disease
• Protrusion
• Extrusion of Migrated Disc
• Hernia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Stabilizing training	The training will include the activation of the lumbar multifidus muscle (m. multifudus) and the transverse abdominal muscle (m. transversus abdominis). The performance of the individual stages of the training will be based on Richardson's methodology. One session will comprise 4 sets in which the patient will be asked to do pelvic tilts (draw-in) with simultaneous full exhalation, thus activating the aforementioned muscle groups in different positions: a) prone b) supine with lower extremities flexed c) quadruped d) standing back to the wall. The subjects will perform 3 series consisting of 10 repeats, each of which will last ca. 10 seconds.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-15
• Completion: 2020-01-15
• First posted: 2019-10-08
• Last updated: 2020-01-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Poland