NCT05301491

The Effects of Dance Therapy in Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

Investigation of the Effects of Dance Therapy on Balance, Falling, Body Awareness and Functionality in Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hasan Kalyoncu University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of dance therapy on balance, falling, body awareness and functionality parameters in patients with chronic low back pain. As a result of our study, it is thought that dance therapy will positively affect balance, falling, body awareness and functionality in patients with chronic low back pain compared to conventional therapy. H 1: Dance therapy improves balance in women with chronic low back pain. H 2: Dance therapy reduces the risk of falling in women with chronic low back pain. H 3: Dance therapy increases body awareness in women with chronic low back pain. H 4: Dance therapy increases functionality in women with chronic low back pain. H 5: Dance therapy provides more improvement in the parameters investigated compared to conventional therapy in women with chronic low back pain.

Detailed description

Individuals diagnosed with chronic low back pain and meeting the inclusion criteria are going to be included in the study. These individuals are going to be divided into groups as the odd numbers to study group and even numbers to the control group. Hotpack, ultrasound and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to the patients in the both groups for 3 days a week for 2 months. Besides that, control group is going to perform 40-minute classical exercise program 3 days a week for 2 months. Study group is going to perform dance therapy protocol as indicated below; * 10 minutes warm-up (stepping), * 25 minutes of dance (such as; steps, figures using hip and knee flexions, hip circulation, and hip rotations) * 5 minutes stretching (relaxation) exercises. Demographic information form is going be filled out patients including information about; age, height (cm), weight (kg), occupation, educational status, bilateral leg length (cm), previous and present diseases, waist/hip ratio, previous surgeries, trunk range of motions, low back pain duration, smoking, falling story. Additionally, following questionnaires are going to be applied to both groups; * Short Form Mc Gill Pain Questionnaire, * Oswestry Disability Index, * Body Awareness Ratio Questionnaire, * Nottingham Health Profile Questionnaire, * Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale, * The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQoL) Scale, * Y balance test * Time Up and Go (TUG) test SPSS version 23 (SPSS Inc, Armonk, NY) program will be used in the analysis of the data. Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon test and student t test will be analyse methods.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain
• Chronic Pain
• Chronic Low-back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dance Therapy Group	Dance therapy group patients are going to be treated 3 days a week for 8 weeks. Patients who started treatment are going to be randomly divided into groups that includes four individuals, due to COVID-19 pandemic preventions. Dance therapy is going to be applied with individualized choreographies specially prepared for the patients, taking the expert opinion of the dance therapist. Choreographies of different dance genres (step/aerobic dance, zumba, salsa, bachata, oriental etc.) are going to be used in the program. Sessions are going to be with the practitioner in a bright, clean, empty and noiseless room in front of a full-length wall mirror. The practitioner is going to participate to dance therapy throughout the sessions, allowing patients to imitate movements. Session duration is going to be 40 minutes. Patients will be given a one-minute rest period during music transitions.
OTHER	Exercise Group	The patients in the control group is going to perform conventional low back exercises. The program of the patients will start with stretching and warming exercises, and will continue with strengthening exercises. Exercises planed for control group; 1. Unilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise) 2. Bilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise) 3. Straight leg lifting with the aid of a sheet/rigid band 4. Posterior pelvic tilt 5. Bridge building exercise 6. Cat-camel exercise 7. Half shuttle in sagittal plane 8. Right and left rotational shuttle 9. Trunk hyperextension in prone position 10. Rotational exercise with hip-knee flexed in supine position Patients are going to do exercises with ten repetitions. As the sessions progressed, the number of repetitions will be increased.
OTHER	Pyhsiotherapy Modalities	20 minutes hotpack, 3-5 minutes ultrasound and 20 minutes conventional type Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to lumbar region of all patients in prone position.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-01
• Primary completion: 2022-04-01
• Completion: 2022-05-30
• First posted: 2022-03-29
• Last updated: 2022-08-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)