Comparison between Mckenzie exercises and motor control exercises on pain, disability and global improvement in patients suffering from low back pain over 3 months.

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Brief Summary: This randomized clinical trial is to compare the effectsbetween the McKenzie method and Motor control exercises on pain, disability andglobal improvement in 76 patients with chronic low back pain. Exercise therapyhas been shown to have beneficial effects for the management of chronic LBP.Two popular forms of exercise used to manage LBP are Mechanical Diagnosis andTherapy referred to as the McKenzie method and motor control exercises. Thestudy had done to compare the McKenzie method to motor control exercises inpeople with chronic low back pain. However the primary outcome used in thestudy was the recruitment of the trunk muscles Transversus abdominis, obliqusexternus and obliqus internus using ultrasound images. Change in musclethickness measure is not clinically important to patients. Patient reportedoutcomes of pain and disability are clearly more important than musclethickness changes for investigating the clinical importance of differentinterventions. There will be two groups McKenzie method group and Motor controlexercises group. Patients will receive 12 treatment sessions over an 8-weeksperiod. The outcome measures are Visual Analogue scale, Modified Oswestry lowback pain disability questionnaire, Global perceived effect questionnaire atbaseline and at 8th week.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

1.Greater than 3 â€“ month history of Low back pain.
2.A directional preference observed with a mechanical assessment based on the McKenzie method.
3.The area of pain localized between the twelfth rib and the buttock crease.
4.Patients reporting referred pain with or without sensory and motor changes.
5.Patients reporting referred pain in one or both the legs.

Exclusion Criteria

1 Lacked adequate comprehension of language skills to comply with treatment or read study material.
2 Metastatic disease.
3 History of spinal fracture and previous surgery.
4 Pregnancy.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
2 Modified Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire	Baseline on the 1st day \| postintervention at the end of 8th week
1 Visual Analogue scale	Baseline on the 1st day \| postintervention at the end of 8th week
3 Global perceived effect questionnaire	Baseline on the 1st day \| postintervention at the end of 8th week

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1 Visual Analogue scale at the end of 8 week.	2 Modified Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire at the end of 8 week.

Locations (1): MGM Institute of Physiotherapy, Aurangabad
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Aurangabad, MAHARASHTRA, India
MGM Institute of Physiotherapy, Aurangabad
🇮🇳Aurangabad, MAHARASHTRA, India
Raveena Vinod Gade
Principal investigator
9561013107
drraveenagade25@gmail.com