NCT05544890

Effects of Core Exercise in Low Back Pain

Core Stability (Therapeutic) Exercise Alone or in Combination With Manual Therapy or Kinesio Tape in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: Randomized Control Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitat Jaume I · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Non-specific low back pain in 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 in 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. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of core stability exercise alone or in combination with manual therapy or kinesiotape on pain, dysfunction, psychosocial factors and pressure pain threshold (PPTs) in patients with low back pain in ODI stage 2. The investigators hypothesized that exercise combined with manual therapy would provide greater changes and benefits than exercise alone. This study's population will be composed by at least 15 individuals per group, both the male and female, with ages among 20 and 60. Participants will be randomly and blindly divided in three groups of intervention. The three groups will be: Exercise group or ET (realize therapeutic exercise alone), manual therapy group o ETmanualtherapy (realize manual therapy prior therapeutic exercise), and kinesiotape group or ETkinesiotape (realize therapeutic exercise plus kinesiotape).

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Exercise	All patients will start learning how to activate the transversus abdominal muscle in the first training session. 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 rest between series will be of 30 seconds, and between exercise of 2-3 minutes. Other Names: \- Therapeutic exercise
PROCEDURE	Manual Therapy	All patients will start learning how to activate the transversus abdominal muscle in the first training session. 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 rest between series will be of 30 seconds, and between exercise of 2-3 minutes. Other Names: \- Manipulation
PROCEDURE	Kinesiotape	All patients will start learning how to activate the transversus abdominal muscle in the first training session. 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 rest between series will be of 30 seconds, and between exercise of 2-3 minutes. Other Names: \- Kinesiotaping

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-20
• Primary completion: 2022-12-20
• Completion: 2022-12-23
• First posted: 2022-09-19
• Last updated: 2023-01-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain