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Influence of Health Determinants on Physical Exercise Therapy With a Neurocognitive Focus on Chronic Low Back Pain

Not Applicable
Conditions
Chronic Low-back Pain
Interventions
Behavioral: Group of educational intervention on the neurophysiology of pain and physical exercises
Behavioral: Control group
Registration Number
NCT04115670
Lead Sponsor
Fundació Universitària del Bages
Brief Summary

Protocols in which pain neuroscience education is combined with physical exercise have shown recently greater effectiveness in the treatment of low back pain in comparison to protocols based only on one of the two approaches. The professional caregiver has a high incidence of low back pain related to the specific aspects of this collection with the low physical condition, the typical tasks performed and other psychosocial aspects. Individual characteristics of these caregivers may condition the effectiveness of the therapy as well as demographic aspects or the alliance between patient and physiotherapist. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of certain health determinants on the effectiveness of a therapy that combines pain neuroscience education and motor control training from a neurocognitive perspective on chronic low back pain in a population of professional caregivers in Bages, analyzing the reduction of low back pain, the improvement of functionality, the reduction of muscle movement and the improvement of muscle coordination.

It will be a quasi-experimental pre-post design, prospective, with a control group, lasting 3 months. The intervention will be performed using a sample of professional caregivers, and the data will be collected before the intervention, at the end of the intervention, and 3-6 months after the intervention. Pain, functionality, conducts of fear/avoidance, and muscular coordination will be analyzed

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria
  • Of legal age
  • Participants who present lumbar or lumbosacral pain all the time for more than 1 year
  • Score of 6 on the Visual Analogical Scale
  • Have been at work (same position) longer than 1 year
Exclusion Criteria
  • Other alterations and diseases of the musculoskeletal system that may interfere with the results of the intervention.
  • Pregnancy during the study time
  • Older than 65 years old

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
CROSSOVER
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
specific intervention (experimental)Group of educational intervention on the neurophysiology of pain and physical exercisesSpecific intervention (experimental). The intervention group will carry out 3 sessions of specific pain education + 15 sessions of physical training.
control group (no intervention)Control groupNO intervention
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change from Baseline in Pain perceived at 3 months: Visual Analogue ScaleBaseline and 3 months

Analisis of pain, using the Visual Analogue Scale, that measure from 0 (no pain) to 10 (excruciating pain)

Change from Baseline in Pain perceived at 6 months: Visual Analogue ScaleBaseline and 6 months

Analisis of pain, using the Visual Analogue Scale, that measure from 0 (no pain) to 10 (excruciating pain)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change from Baseline in Fear and avoidance of movement at 3 monthsBaseline and 3 months

Tampa Scale of Kinesophobia, a scale with 11 items, the rating ranges from 11 points to 44 points. A high value indicates that there is a high degree of fear of movement.

Change from Baseline in Pain disability at 3 months: Oswestry Disability IndexBaseline and 3 months

Oswestry Disability Index, This scale consists of 10 questions, each of them with answers graduated from 0 (no relevant) to 5 (very relevant), from which the % of disability of the individual is obtained from the formula: Total points of the answers / 50 \*100= % disabled

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Universitat de Vic-Universitat de Catalunya (UVic-UCC)

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Manresa, Barcelona, Spain

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