Aquatic and Land Exercises in Chronic Low Back Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain
• Interventions: Other: exercise

• Registration Number: NCT04378413
• Lead Sponsor: Baskent University

Brief Summary

Aquatic and Land Exercises on Chronic Low Back Pain

Detailed Description

The Effect of Aquatic and Land Exercises on Pain, Health Related Quality of Life, Kinesiophobia and Disability in Chronic Low Back Pain

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-11-02
• Primary Completion: 2020-03-15
• Status Verified: 2020-04
• Study Completion: 2020-04-23
• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-05-04
• Study First Posted: 2020-05-07
• Last Update Posted: 2020-05-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• patients had to be diagnosed with clinical examination and radiological findings of low back pain from at least 6 months.

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Exclusion Criteria

• acute pain

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
The Effect of Land Exercises on Pain, Quality of life	exercise	Land-based exercise program included abdominal and back strengthening exercises.
The Effect of Aquatic Exercises on Pain, quality of life	exercise	Water-based exercise program was conducted in the second group of 15 patients in an indoor swimming pool. Temperature of mineral water was 36 °C. The program included warming up by walking forwards, sideways and backwards through the water in the pool; active range of motion of the joints of the lower extremities; stretching lower extremities; strengthening exercises for hips, knees, arms, elbows and wrists; and cooling down (slow walking, squatting and standing).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
quality of life after aqua and land exercises	4 week	Quality of life was assessed by Short-Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) High scores indicate good quality of life and low scores represent poor quality of life.
pain in low back pain after aqua and land exercises	4 week	It is asked to mark pain on a 10 cm scale.Pain was assessed at rest and at movement by using a 10-cm-long visual (0 cm means no pain while 10 cm means worst pain

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
kinesiophobia in low back paitients after aqua and land exercise	4 week	The assessment of kinesiophobia was made with the Tampa Scale The fact that the individual got a high score from the questionnaire shows that she has more fear of movement.
disability in low back paitients after aqua and land exercise	4 week	.For disability assessment, the Modified Oswestry Disability İndex was used . According to the sum of scale; 0-4 points were considered as no disability, 5-14 points were mild, 15-24 points were moderate, 25-34 points were serious, and 35-50 points were fully functional inadequacy.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ayça Aytar; 🇹🇷 Ankara, Turkey