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Clinical Investigation to Assess the Clinical Performance of the LumbaCure® Intervention on Chronic Low Back Pain Patients.

Not Applicable
Terminated
Conditions
Chronic Low Back Pain
Interventions
Device: LumbaCure®
Procedure: Physical Exercises supervised by the physiotherapist
Registration Number
NCT06138002
Lead Sponsor
Odix
Brief Summary

Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the common causes of morbidity worldwide, with a one-month prevalence of 23.3 %. Number of people with LBP reached 577 million people in 2020. LBP has been the leading cause of years lived with disability from 1990 to 2017. The highest incidence of LBP is in people in their third decade of age. LBP is a complex disease difficult to treat as most of these cases (80 - 90 %) are classified as non-specific meaning that the pain cannot be attributed to any specific injury or pathology.

Until now exercise therapy is commonly used as the treatment of choice in the revalidation program of LBP. The aim of physical treatment is to improve function and prevent disability from getting worse.

LumbaCure® is a robotic system driven by a proprietary movement algorithm to induce a specific and controlled mobilization of the hips and the low back in patient requiring treatment by physical exercises due to orthopedic disorder, especially low back pain.

The investigation include an intervention period of 4 weeks The main objective is to compare the impact on disability (Oswestry disability Index) and movement performance of the interventions (LumbaCure® vs physical exercises supervised by the physiotherapist) in two parallel groups of patients suffering from chronic low back pain.

The investigation includes an intervention period of 4 weeks and a follow-up period of 6 months (post intervention period).

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
TERMINATED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
22
Inclusion Criteria
  • Chronic non-specific LBP (without red flag)
  • Patient did not increase, on a long-term basis, his/her regular physical activity in the past 2 months.
  • LBP is the principal musculoskeletal condition
  • Aged between 18 and 65 years old
  • Able to read and understand questionnaires and communicate with the physiotherapist.
  • Average Back Pain intensity over the last week above 2, assessed on Numerical Pain Rating Scale from 0 to 10 anchored with "no pain" at 0 and "worst pain imaginable " at 10.
  • ODI score > 20
Exclusion Criteria
  • Suspected or confirmed serious pathology (i.e infection, fracture, cancer, inflammatory arthritis, ....)
  • Radicular pain
  • Radiculopathy
  • Cognitive impairment that precludes participant from consenting, completing investigation questionnaires or complying with recommendations
  • Previous spine surgery in the last 3 months
  • Pregnant women
  • body weight > 120 kg
  • Neurological disease
  • Fibromyalgia

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Test Intervention armLumbaCure®The LumbaCure® is a robotic system which provide active, specific and controlled mobilization of the low back. The device is to be used by the Physiotherapist at the rehabilitation centre. The duration of a session for the patient is 15 minutes. Patients follow a serie of 12 consecutive LumbaCure® sessions at a frequency of 3 sessions / week for 4 weeks.
Control Intervention armPhysical Exercises supervised by the physiotherapistA set of core stability exercises/active qualitative mobilization has been defined with principal investigator according to the standard of care at Investigator site. At each session, 5 exercises will be selected by the investigator depending on the evolution and pathology of the patient. Five minutes of warm-up will be performed before starting the exercises session. The program will last 15 to 30 min depending on the time required for the patient to complete the prescribed exercises. Patients follow a serie of 12 consecutive physical exercises sessions at a frequency of 3 sessions / week for 4 weeks.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
DisabilityBaseline, week 4 (end of intervention period)

The change of the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) between baseline and the end of the intervention period (4 weeks)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Kinesiophobiamonth 1, month 3 and 6 (follow-up period)

Change in fear of movements and attitudes and behavior from the end of intervention period (week4), towards pain score, evaluated through the Tampa questionnaire.

Anxiety and depressionmonth 1, month 3 and 6 (follow-up period)

Change in Anxiety and depression score from end of the intervention period (week 4), assessed by the HAD questionnaire.

Disabilityweek2 (intervention period); month 1, month 3 and month 6 follow-up period

The change in the ODI score between baseline and follow-up period

Back Pain responding rateweek 2, week 4 (intervention period) and at month 1, month 3 and month 6 (follow-up period)

Number and percentage of patients presenting an improvement from baseline of at least 1.5 points in the Numerical Pain rating scale

Physiotherapist global satisfactionweek 4

A single score of satisfaction reported by the physiotherapist:

* How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the ability of the LumbaCure® intervention to improve your patient low back pain condition (7-points scale; 1 = completely dissatisfied; 7 = completely satisfied); ?

* How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the ability of the Physical exercises intervention to improve your patient low back pain condition (7-points scale; 1 = completely dissatisfied; 7 = completely satisfied)?

Disability responding rateweek 2, week 4 (intervention period) and at month 1, month 3 and month 6 follow-up period

Number and percentage of patients presenting an improvement from baseline of at least 10 points in the ODI

Back Painmonth 1, month 3 and month 6 (follow-up period)

Changes in average back pain intensity over the last week from end of the intervention period (week 4), assessed on Numerical Rating Scale from 0 to 10 (0 for no pain and 10 for worst pain imaginable) in the follow-up period.

FunctionBetween end of intervention period and month 1, month 3 and 6 post-intervention

Change in function score from the end of the intervention period (week 4) in the follow-up period, assessed using the Pain Specific Functional Scale. The PSFS requires participants to identify three problematic activities and to rate these activities on a scale from 0 to 10.

Function responding rateweek 4 (intervention period) and at month 1, month 3 and month 6 (follow-up period)

Number and percentage of patients presenting an improvement of at least 1.5 points from baseline in the pain specific function scale

Kinesiophobia responding rateweek 4 (intervention period) and month 1, month 3 and month 6 (follow-up period)

Number and percentage of patients presenting an improvement of at least 6 points from baseline in Tampa scale.

Anxiety and depression responding rateweek 4 (intervention period) and month 1, month 3 and month 6 (follow-up period)

Number and percentage of patients presenting an improvement of at least 2 points from baseline for each sub-scale anxiety and depression in the two treatment arms

Patient global satisfaction of the therapyEnd of intervention period (week 4)

A single score of satisfaction will be calculated based on a set of two questions:

\> How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the ability of the LumbaCure® / Physical exercises intervention to improve your low back pain condition (7-points scale; 1 = completely dissatisfied; 7 = completely satisfied)? How globally would you rate your experience, on the LumbaCure® device/with physical exercises (7-point Likert scale (1 = very bad; 7 = excellent)) ?

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Jessa Ziekenhuis vzw

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Herk-de stad, Belgium

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