NCT05832918

Effects of Core Stability Exercises and Cognitive Tasks on Chronic Non-specific Back Pain

Effects of Core Stability Exercises and Cognitive Tasks Compared to General Exercises and Cognitive Tasks on Chronic Non-specific Back Pain

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Iran University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized control trial study aims to compare the effect of core stability exercises and cognitive tasks with general exercises and cognitive tasks on pain, disability, and postural control strategies of chronic non-specific low back pain patients. The main questions are: 1. Are core stability exercises and cognitive tasks more effective than general exercises and cognitive tasks in reducing the pain of chronic non-specific low back pain patients? 2. Are core stability exercises and cognitive tasks more effective than general exercises and cognitive tasks in reducing the disability of chronic non-specific low back pain patients? 3. Are core stability exercises and cognitive tasks more effective than general exercises and cognitive tasks in improving postural stability parameters of chronic non-specific low back pain patients? 4. Are core stability exercises and cognitive tasks more effective than general exercises and cognitive tasks in improving stabilogram diffusion analysis parameters of chronic non-specific low back pain patients? This study is designed to apply two exercise protocols on two groups of 17 people with non-specific back pain. Group A will receive core stability exercises along with cognitive tasks, and group B will receive general exercises along with cognitive tasks.

Detailed description

Patients will be aged between 18-50 years. All patients meeting the inclusion criteria will receive 16 training sessions (thrice a week). The primary outcome measure will be pain and disability. Secondary outcome measures will be postural control strategies (including postural control stability and stabilogram diffusion analysis), quality of life, fear of movement, and fear-avoidance beliefs that will be assessed before and after training sessions and at 3-month follow-up; only primary outcomes will be evaluated in each group.

Conditions

• Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	exercise therapy	Exercise therapy is one of the rehabilitation methods that is defined as a regimen or plan of physical activities designed and prescribed to facilitate the patient's recovery from diseases and any conditions which disturb their movement and activity of daily life or maintain a state of well-being through neuro re-education, gait training, and therapeutic exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-02
• Primary completion: 2025-11-30
• Completion: 2025-12-15
• First posted: 2023-04-27
• Last updated: 2025-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran