NCT04157374

Action Observation Training in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istituto Clinico Humanitas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study is a single-blind controlled randomized clinical trial.

Detailed description

Patients will be recruited and then randomly assigned by an external collaborator to the experimental group or to the control group. To the patients that belong to the experimental group will be asked to watch a video showing a person carrying out some exercises (12 exercises: 3 of stretching, 3 of core stability, 3 of mobilization and 3 of functional) and then they will have to practice them.On the other hand, to the patients that belong to the control group will be given a brochure with the same exercises the patients of the experimental group received through the video. Both groups will have to watch the video or read the brochure and repeat the exercises 5 times per week for 3 weeks. Patients will be evaluated before the treatment (T0), three weeks after the beginning (T1) and 4 months upon the end of it (T2). The evaluation will consist in the administration of the Oswestry Disability Index, of the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia, of the Numerical Rating Scale and of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36. A physiotherapist will instruct the patients about the exercises while a second one blinded about the belonging group of patients, will administer the evaluation scales.

Conditions

• AOT
• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Action Observation training	They have to watch a video showing a person carrying out exercises (12 exercises: 3 of stretching, 3 of core stability, 3 of mobilization and 3 of functional). then they have to practice them. The observation of the exercises and their performance last 8 minutes (4 minutes for observation and 4 minutes for practice). They have to repeat the exercises 5 times per week for 3 weeks.
OTHER	Active Exercises	Execution of exercises: 3 of stretching, 3 of core stability, 3 of mobilization and 3 of functional activity. Patients of the control group recieve a brochure with the same exercises the patients of the experimental group received through the video. They will be asked to read the exercise 3 times and to practice it for 4 minutes. They have to repeat the exercises 5 times per week for 3 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-29
• Primary completion: 2021-01-10
• Completion: 2022-07-30
• First posted: 2019-11-08
• Last updated: 2021-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy