ACTRN12615001270505
Completed
Not Applicable
In patients with low back pain, does general spine and body conditioning, compared to manual therapy, improve intervertebral disc characteristics?
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- ow back pain
- Sponsor
- Deakin University
- Enrollment
- 40
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
No summary available.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Key inclusion criteria:
- •\* Low back pain of at least 3 months duration. Can be recurrent intermittent low back pain.
- •\* NRS scale (via telephone): minimum of 2 and maximum of 8
- •\* Aged 25\-45
- •\* Sedentary: Less than 150 minutes moderate to vigorous physical activity per week. Moderate \= make you breathe somewhat harder than normal
- •\* Available to attend up to 3d/week to a facility at either Deakin University or Boronia
- •\* Able to attend during work hours
- •\* Able to attend a 3 hour testing sessions at baseline, 3 and 6 months at Deakin with an additional MRI scan on a different day
Exclusion Criteria
- •1\. Unable to attend of up to 2 sessions per week of 1 hours over a 6 month period.
- •2\. Formal organised sport
- •3\. Gym exercise more than one day a week
- •4\. Any current parallel treatment
- •5\. Unable to complete the testing protocol
- •6\. Spinal pain/treatment exclusions:
- •\* Any other current interventional treatment (aside from seeing GP and/or taking medication)
- •\* Plans at the time of enrolment to undergo invasive treatment (injections or surgery) in the subsequent 6 months
- •\* History of spinal surgery
- •\* Is on a waiting list for spinal surgery
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Not specified
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