Exercise and Low Back Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy Volunteers With and Without Chronic Low Back Pain
• Interventions: Behavioral: Exercise

• Registration Number: NCT02029131
• Lead Sponsor: Hannover Medical School

Brief Summary

Evaluation of the effectiveness of an individually educated exercise program for the lower back at home in employees over a period of 20 weeks.

We hypothesize that regular exercise for the lower back results in greater improvements of low back strengths compared to controls.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-01
• Study First Submitted: 2014-01-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-01-06
• Study First Posted: 2014-01-07
• Primary Completion: 2014-09
• Status Verified: 2017-02
• Study Completion: 2017-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-02-22
• Last Update Posted: 2017-02-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 226

Inclusion Criteria

• men and women
• age between 18 and 67 years

Exclusion Criteria

• beeing currently involved in an exercise program for the lower back
• known drug or alcohol abuse
• any disease that excludes the participation in an exercise program
• clinical relevant acute or chronic infections
• pregnant women

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Exercise	Exercise	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Back strength (kg)	At baseline and after 20 weeks	Assessed with the back-check 607 (Dr. WOLFF Sports and Prevention)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Strenght at lateral flexion of the trunk (kg)	At baseline and after 20 weeks	Assessed with the back-check 607 (Dr. WOLFF Sports and Prevention)
Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Score	At baseline and after 20 weeks	Assessed with the Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability questionaire
Pain (scale)	At baseline and after 20 weeks	Assessed with the visual analog scale
Quality of life (score)	At baseline and after 20 weeks	Assessed with the short form 36 questionaire
Work ability index (score)	At baseline and afetr 20 weeks	Assessed with the WAI questionaire
Physical activity (score)	At baseline and after 20 weeks	Assessed with the "Freiburger activity questionaire"
Fat mass and fat-free mass (kg)	At baseline and after 20 weeks	Assessed with Bio Impedance Analysis
sick days (numbers)	At baseline and after 20 weeks	sick days at work will be assessed for the 20 weeks of the active intervention and the whole year the intervention is conducted

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hannover Medical School; 🇩🇪 Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany