Effects of Taping & Exercise Therapy on Lower Back Musculoskeletal Conditions in Pakistani Patients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Lower Back Pain
研究概览
简要总结
Lower back pain has been one of the most frequently occurring musculoskeletal disorder among the females. This act as a global burden and is highly prevalent in our society. This pain can result in life long disability, loss of function and mobility among individuals. The female of the society suffers from lower back pain the most because of the under lying causes, prolong standing and stooping as well as because of hormonal changes in their bodies
详细描述
After studying the prevalence of the lower back pain among the females of Pakistan, the investogator find the need to assess the type of their pain and find out the best way to ease their pains. The motive was to develop a treatment protocol whose effects last longer and is inexpensive for the management of lower back pain.
Moreover, the investigator decided to study that which treatment protocol is better when compared to another and what is the role of sham treatment when given to the patients.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 28 Years 至 38 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Females who were willing to participate.
- •Participants with nonspecific lower back pain will only be included and screened through the screening questionnaire.
排除标准
- •Post-menopausal women
- •Females with any diagnosed co-morbidity.
- •Back pain progressive to any neurological deficit
- •Sustained or increased back pain with loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss accompanied with fever, nausea and chills
- •With any known spinal or lower back pathology
- •Tumor of the spine
- •Any underlying diseases of spinal cord (i.e, ankylosing spondylosis, spondolisthesis)
- •With any steroid therapy for lower back pain in the past three months
- •Any inflammatory rheumatic disease
- •Sensitive skin or any skin allergy or dermatological condition
- •Any rehabilitative services taken for the lower back pain in the past two months
- •Rejection to manual conatct
结局指标
主要结局
Lower Back Pain
时间窗: Change from baseline to week 3
Numeric Pain Rating Scale
Disability of lower back
时间窗: Change from baseline to week 3
Oswestry Disability Index
次要结局
- Pain Pressure Threshold(Change from baseline to week 3)
- Quality of Life of patients with Lower back pain(Change from baseline to week 3)
- Range of Motion(Change from baseline to week 3)
- Tissue Hardness(Change from baseline to week 3)
研究者
Kiran Arshad
Principal Investigator
University of Karachi