The effects of Functional Training in asymptomatic elderly women with Chronic Low Back Pain

niversidade Federal de Sergipe0 sitesMay 16, 2023

Overview

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Registry

who.int

Start Date

May 16, 2023

End Date

August 1, 2023

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Intervention

Sex

Female

Sponsor

niversidade Federal de Sergipe

•Will be included in the research, women with a clinical diagnosis of nonspecific chronic low back pain, between 60 and 79 years old, with a complaint of low back pain for more than 3 months, a pain level greater than 3 on the numerical pain scale of 11 points and women in the same age group without low back pain and/or other type of chronic pain. Asymptomatic elderly women cannot have chronic low back pain and no episodes of pain in the last three months. Volunteers will also need to have a body mass index (BMI) \<30 kg/m2, not have undergone spinal surgery; not exercising regularly; not doing physical therapy or other pain treatment; not to use analgesic, anti\-inflammatory, opioid or immunosuppressive medication

•Exclusion criteria will be missing one of the assessments, more than 20% of the intervention or presenting any motor impairment (paraplegia, paraparesis, monoplegia, monoparesis, hemiplegia, hemiparesis), psychiatric (schizophrenia, epilepsy, severe depression) or cognitive (moderate mental retardation , severe and/or profound), auditory, visual or communication disorders that make it impossible to carry out the protocol. If there is any suspicion of a disability, the volunteer will be referred for evaluation by a general practitioner and, if confirmed, the participant will be referred to the physiotherapy, speech therapy and/or psychology departments at UFS for proper follow\-up