(Cost-)effectiveness of a physical, a cognitive-behavioural and an integrated treatment in chronic low back pain disability

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: on-specific chronic low back pain; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Back pain

• Registration Number: ISRCTN22714229
• Lead Sponsor: etherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-06-10
• Last Update Posted: 30 October 2017

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 223

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients for the first time referred to three outdoor rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands
2. Age between 18 and 65 years
3. Non specific CLBP with or without irradiation to leg for more than three months resulting in disability (Roland Morris Disability score more than three)
4. Ability to walk at least 100 m without interruption

Exclusion Criteria

1. Vertebral fracture
2. Spinal inflammatory disease
3. Spinal infections or malignancy
4. Current nerve root pathology
5. Spondylolysis or -listhesis
6. Lumbar spondylodesis
7. Medical co-morbidity making intensive exercising impossible (e.g. cardiovascular or metabolic disease)
8. Ongoing diagnostic procedures or treatment for their CLBP at the time of referral
9. Not proficient in Dutch
10. Pregnancy
11. Substance abuse that could intervene with the rehabilitation treatment
12. Patients have to stop other therapies except pain medication for their back complaints
13. The Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) and the Dutch Personality Questionnaire (NPV) are used to check for psychopathology that would hamper individual or group processes

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified