Cognitive functional therapy for low back pain: a feasibility randomised controlled trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: ow back pain; Musculoskeletal Diseases

• Registration Number: ISRCTN12965286
• Lead Sponsor: niversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Brief Summary

2024 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2024.02.003 (added 14/03/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-05-10
• Study Completion: 2021-04-17
• Last Update Posted: 25 March 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1. Dominant low back lasting for more than three months
2. Activity and/or functional limitations due to low back pain
3. A Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) score =3/10 during the last week
4. Being independently mobile to be capable of participating in a rehabilitation programme

Exclusion Criteria

1. Leg pain as the primary problem (e.g. nerve root compression or disc prolapse with radicular pain/radiculopathy, lateral recess or central spinal stenosis)
2. Pain relieving interventional procedures in the preceding 3 months (e.g. facet joint denervation, caudal epidural injections)
3. Less than six months after lumbar spine, lower limb or abdominal surgery
4. Red flag disorders (malignancy/cancer, spinal fracture (less than six months ago), spinal infection or cauda equina syndrome)
5. Pregnancy or less than six months post-partum
6. Diagnosed psychiatric disorder that prevents engagement in a self-management intervention
7. Rheumatologic/inflammatory disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis or psoriatic arthritis)
8. Progressive neurological disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, motor neuron disease)
9. Unstable cardiac conditions

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified