NCT05939024

Efficacy of Muscle Energy Techniques in the Treatment of Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

Efficacy of Conventional Physical Therapy With and Without Muscle Energy Techniques in the Treatment of Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Lahore · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain is characterized as a tension, soreness and stiffness. Various studies, defined MET as a manual medicine treatment procedure that involves the voluntary contraction of the subject's muscle in a precisely controlled direction, at varying levels of intensity, against a distinctly executed counterforce applied by the therapist.

Detailed description

Chronic Non-specific LBP is located in region below lower costal margins and above inferior gluteal margins with or without any referred pain in legs, an essentially non-attributable to any specific cause. It may lasting for more than 7-12 months and affect individual over a long period of time once in a lifetime at least. METs is useful in increasing extensibility and range of motion of various joints and provides good results in the patients with back pain. These techniques are used as the treatment of weakened muscles, restricted joints, reducing pain reliving muscle tension \& spasm, \& increased strength of the muscle. MET is a verstile, safe, gentle technique traditionally used to address muscular strain, PAIN, local edema and joint dysfunction. It was reported that post isometric relaxation is considered a highly effective therapy for back dysfunction patients.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain, Mechanical

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Muscle Energy Technique plus Conventional Physical Therapy	Post-Isometric Relaxation of the Muscle Energy Techniques will be applied to Spinal Stabilizers and Mechanoreceptors. Hold time will be 7 seconds with 5 seconds rest between two performance x 3 times /session. Whereas, Conventional Physical Therapy consists of hot pack, TENS, Ultrasonic along with stretching and exercises of back musculature.
OTHER	Conventional Physical Therapy	Conventional Physical Therapy consists of hot pack, TENS, Ultrasonic along with stretching and exercises of back musculature.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-07-15
• Completion: 2023-07-31
• First posted: 2023-07-11
• Last updated: 2023-08-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan