NCT04266366

Cost- Effectiveness of a Face-to-Face Rehabilitation Program vs an Telemedicine Program in Chronic Low Back Pain

Comparison of Cost and Cost- Effectiveness of a Face-to-Face Rehabilitation Program vs an Telemedicine Program on Disability, Pain, Fear of Movement, Quality of Life and Spinal Mobility in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 540 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Almeria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 67 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Perform a cost-utility analysis in patients with chronic low back pain through electroanalgesia treatment and exercises administered by telemedicine program versus face-to-face program

Detailed description

A double blind clinical trial will be developed in a sample of 80 subjects with chronic low back pain. Patients will receive 3 weekly sessions of electroanalgesia and an exercise program for 8 weeks, for a total of 24 sessions. The aim is to analyze the cost- effectiveness of a face-to- face rehabilitation program vs a telemedicine program on disability, pain, fear of movement, quality of life, resistance of the trunk flexors, lumbar mobility in flexion and muscular electrical activity.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Face-to-Face Rehabilitation program	In each hospital, two trained therapists will carry out a face-to-face rehabilitation program consisting of electroanalgesia and an exercise program that follows the Mckenzie method. The physiotherapists place the electrodes in the patients, for this they use 5x9 cm electrodes, which they place at the bilateral paravertebral level, in the patients who present with radicular pain, the electrodes will be placed in the path of the affected nerve. The duration will be sufficient to carry out the Mckenzie protocol. Mckenzie exercises are designed to make changes in the internal periarticular components of the spine.
OTHER	Telemedicine program	It consists in an e-Health rehabilitation program through a web platform performing electroanalgesia and an exercise program following the Mckenzie method. Patients will be instructed in the use of the TENS device using 5x9cm electrodes at the bilateral paravertebral level, the patients that present radicular pain, the electrodes will be placed in the path of the affected nerve. The realization of exercises will be through the application of an Mckezie protocol. The duration will be the same as that used to carry out the Mckenzie protocol. Mckenzie exercises are designed to make changes in the internal components periarticular of the spine.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-01
• Primary completion: 2022-03-01
• Completion: 2022-10-01
• First posted: 2020-02-12
• Last updated: 2022-11-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain