NCT04924387

Manual Therapy and Exercise in Low Back Pain

Effects of a Procedure Programme in Patients With Non-specific Low Back Pain. Comparative Intervention Based on Therapeutic Exercise, Therapeutic Exercise With Kinesio Tape and Manual Therapy Prior to the Therapeutic Exercise

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fundación Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Non-specific low back pain is one of the main causes of disability for health care worldwide. The effectiveness of therapeutic exercise, of kinesio tape and of manual therapy in the treatment of low back pain is evaluated, but not a comparison of these techniques. Moreover, can these techniques be combined?

Detailed description

Non-specific low back pain is one of the main causes of disability for health care worldwide. Nowadays, the mostly used technique to research low back muscular activity is electromyography. Among the published studies, the effectiveness of therapeutic exercise, of kinesio tape and of manual therapy in the treatment of low back pain is evaluated, but not a comparison of these techniques. The main objective that is aimed by this thesis, is the evaluation of muscular activation in the reduction of non-specific low back pain through a 12 weeks procedure programme, which includes therapeutic exercise combined with other treatment techniques, and assessing the psycho-social characteristics of pain. This study's population will be composed by at least 16 individuals per group, both male and female, with ages among 20 and 80. Participants will be randomly and blindly divided in three groups of intervention. The three groups will be: the experimental group or EXP Group (all participants subject to therapeutic exercise), the experimental group, which will also be subject to manual therapy (MT Group) and finally, the experimental group, which will also be subject to kinesio tape work (KT Group).

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Exercise	All patients will start learning how to activate the abdominal muscles in the first training session. The exercise progression will be adapted according to the capacity of each patient, considering their pain levels. The exercises will be made in 1 to 3 series of among 8 and 15 repetitions and the isometric contractions for 5 to 10 seconds. The rests between series will be of 30 seconds, and between exercises of 2-3 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-23
• Completion: 2021-12-23
• First posted: 2021-06-14
• Last updated: 2022-01-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain