The Myofascial Massage in the Treatment of Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: the Experience of Contact
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Chronic Low Back Pain
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
- Enrollment
- 51
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) from baseline to 12 weeks
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 9 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of an approach that combines massage therapy with elements of neurocognitive rehabilitation such as motor imagery and the words of the physiotherapist compared to a traditional massage therapy in reducing pain in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and to evaluate if and how the pain reduction is linked to the interoceptive awareness and which is the patient's ability to relax through the measurement of the hearth rate variability (HRV).
Investigators
Teresa Paolucci
Medical Director
University of Roma La Sapienza
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Presence of chronic nonspecific low back pain for at least three months
- •Subjects aged between 18 and 50 years
Exclusion Criteria
- •Presence of acute low back pain
- •Low back pain due to other causes (vertebral fractures, spondylolisthesis, herniated discs, lumbar canal stenosis)
- •Disorders of central and/or peripheral nervous system
- •Systemic inflammatory disease (eg rheumatoid arthritis)
- •Systemic infectious disease
- •Neoplastic disease
- •Previous Surgery
- •Cognitive impairment
- •Pregnancy
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) from baseline to 12 weeks
Time Frame: baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
It is a scale for the assessment of pain and it's based on a ten point scale, where 0 means no pain and 10 the greatest pain ever both at rest and during movements.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change of Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) from baseline to 12 weeks(baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks)
- Change of SF-12 Health Survey Questionnaire from baseline to 12 weeks(baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks)
- Change of hearth rate variability (HRV) expressed as coherent ratio from baseline to 4 weeks(baseline, 4 weeks)
- Change of McGill Pain Questionnaire from baseline to 12 weeks(baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks)
- Change of Waddell Disability Index from baseline to 12 weeks(baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks)