NCT05088031

Shock Wave Therapy Versus Mechanical Traction on Mechanical Low Back Pain

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Merit University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

investigate the effect of shock wave therapy versus mechanical traction on mechanical low back pain.

Detailed description

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a common condition that causes tremendous health and socio-economic problems. CLBP is a widespread problem. About 70%-80% of adults in the general population are expected to suffer at least a low back pain episode at some time in their lives1. CLBP is the leading cause of absenteeism at work and creates restrictions on movements, lasting disabilities, and impaired quality of life. Non-specific low back pain is described as low back discomfort, which cannot be attributed to a distinct, known etiology "(e.g., infection, tumors, osteoporosis, fracture, structural deformity, inflammatory disorder, radicular syndrome, or cauda equina syndrome)" 2. Non-specific low back pain is a mechanical musculoskeletal pain that has a symptom that varies according to the physical activity nature 3. The practice of sitting with a healthy posture and preventing a protracted-standing position can often prevent simple low back pain. However, many kinds of low back pain are addressed with therapies as numerous as the causes of low back pain. The most important treatments are therapeutic measures, such as bed rest, assistive aids, traction therapy, heat, electrical stimulation, and manual therapy are the first choice treatments4. If these methods fails, invasive therapy procedures like nerve roots blocks and epidural injections are employed, and operations are carried out when no reaction to other treatments has been seen or if the disease status is critical. New conservative therapies, including extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT), have recently been embraced 5.

Conditions

• Mechanical Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	shock waves therapy	Group (A): 20 patients would undergo shock waves plus traditional physical therapy. One thousand shock waves (7 times per sec) were applied at 2.5 Hz at low energy flux densities of 0.01-0.16 mJ/mm2 using a 17 mm head 2-Group (B): 20 patients would undergo intermittent mechanical traction plus conventional physical therapy. Participants would undergo 30 minutes of "mechanical traction (with 10-second pull and 5-second rest)"

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-01
• Primary completion: 2022-11-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2021-10-21
• Last updated: 2021-10-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt