NCT05347368

Effects of Primal Reflex Release Technique in Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

Effects of Primal Reflex Release Technique on Pain, Disability and Flexibility in Patients With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Low back pain is a major disorder which occurs from chronic over use and injury to lumbar musculoskeletal system. Sometimes the source of pain is non-specific leading to pain and spasm due to muscle imbalance. Primal reflex release technique is a novel concept to decrease pain and muscle spasm by resetting reflexes using reciprocal inhibition following the concept of rebooting the Autonomic nervous system. This study aims to determine the effects of primal reflex release technique on pain, flexibility and disability in chronic nonspecific low back pain patients. This study will be a Randomized Controlled trial and will be conducted at Arif Memorial Hospital in Lahore. A sample size of Total 32 patients will be taken in this study using consecutive sampling technique. Patients will be randomly assigned into two groups. Group A will be treated by conventional therapy and Group B will be treated by conventional therapy and primal reflex release technique. Numeric Pain Rating Scale and Ronald Morris Disability Questionnaire will be used to evaluate pain and disability respectively. Flexibility of low back, Iliopsoas, hamstring, Piriformis and gastrocnemius will be measured by schober's test, modified Thomas test, Active knee extension test, FAIR test and active dorsiflexion, respectively. The evaluation will be on day 1 as pretreatment values and at 2nd and 4th week as post treatment values respectively. The collected data will be analyzed on SPSS - 25.

Conditions

• Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Control group (conventional therapy)	Physical therapy will be performed using physical agent modality that include hot pack (15 min), and therapeutic exercises (5 repetition per set, 2 sets each session) therapeutic exercises include spinal extension exercise, prone hip extension exercise, posterior pelvic tilt, cat-camel exercise
OTHER	Primal Reflex release Technique	The SI/Lumbar release Iliopsoas release Piriformis release Hamstring release Gastrocnemius release

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-25
• Primary completion: 2022-12-25
• Completion: 2023-01-10
• First posted: 2022-04-26
• Last updated: 2022-06-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan