Efficacy of Motor Control and Diathermy Treatment in Acute Low Back Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Low Back Pain
• Interventions: Device: microwave diathermy

• Registration Number: NCT03386084
• Lead Sponsor: University of Alcala

Brief Summary

Lumbar pain is considered one of the most frequent health problems faced by human populations on a global scale.

This study will be carried out to evaluate the efficiency of motor control treatments combined with diathermy in patients diagnosed with acute lower back pain, focusing upon the potential for accelerated patient recuperation if both treatments are applied simultaneously and jointly.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-11-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-12-20
• Study First Posted: 2017-12-29
• Study Start: 2018-01-10
• Primary Completion: 2018-05-31
• Study Completion: 2018-05-31
• Status Verified: 2018-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-06-02
• Last Update Posted: 2018-06-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 22

Inclusion Criteria

• Acute low back pain (no more of 4 weeks)
• Spanish speaker
• Between 18-65 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients in whom diathermy is a contraindicated therapy
• Pacemaker
• Pregnant
• Not intact skin
• Thrombophlebitis
• Hypotension
• Anticoagulated patient or with local surgical intervention

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
application of microwave diathermy without therapeutic effects	microwave diathermy	-
direct application of microwave diathermy and motor control	microwave diathermy	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain	4 weeks	An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by nerve endings of nociceptive neurons.; The measurement tool that will be used is Visual Analog Scale. This scale is a unidimensional measure of pain intensity. It has a continuous scale comprised of a horizontal line with an interval of 10 points, where 1 is the minimum intensity of pain the patient can endure and 10 is the maximum intensity of pain the patient can endure.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Disability	4 weeks	Determination of the degree of a physical patient´s handicap. The measurement tool that will be used is Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire. This questionnaire is used to establish physical disability degree of people with non specific acute low back pain. It has 24 questions the patient should point out to determinate his/her limitation for make normal activities.
Satisfaction	4 weeks	To evaluate the assessment of the satisfaction regarding the attention and quality of the services received and the degree of compliance with the patient's expectations about the treatment.; The measurement tool that will be used is Client Satisfaction Questionnaire. This questionnaire is used to evaluate patient's satisfaction with the care and quality of the health services received. It has 8 items from 1 to 4 points (where 1 is the minimum satisfaction and 4 is the maximum satisfaction) to assess the satisfaction degree.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

FisioWork; 🇪🇸 San Sebastián De Los Reyes, Madrid, Spain