The Effectiveness of Kinesio Taping in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain
• Interventions: Other: Kinesio taping; Device: Conventional physical therapy

• Registration Number: NCT05173948
• Lead Sponsor: University of Tabuk

Brief Summary

The objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of Kinesio taping (KT) with Conventional Physical therapy (CPT) - Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Supervised Exercise therapy and CPT in the management of CLBP.

Detailed Description

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most common causes of chronic disability which leads to major social and economic consequences. The role and effectiveness of the Kinesio taping (KT) and Conventional Physical therapy (CPT) are evident from the existing literature but no comparison was found on the combination of other physical therapy techniques such as supervised exercise therapy and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) with CLBP in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-06-15
• Primary Completion: 2020-06-30
• Study Completion: 2020-08-30
• Study First Submitted: 2021-11-23
• Status Verified: 2021-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-12-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-12-29
• Study First Posted: 2021-12-30
• Last Update Posted: 2021-12-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Pain caused by mechanical/nonspecific low back pain.
• Degeneration of the spine and intervertebral disc.
• The visual analog scale of pain 4 and above
• Low back pain for at least three months

Exclusion Criteria

• Physical therapy treatment is taken in the past 6 months period
• Previous spinal surgery with fixation
• Structural anomalies
• Spinal cord compression
• Severe osteoporosis
• Acute infections
• Severe cardiovascular or metabolic diseases
• Pregnant women

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Kinesio taping and Conventional Physical therapy	Kinesio taping	Kinesio taping with Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Supervised Exercise therapy
Kinesio taping and Conventional Physical therapy	Conventional physical therapy	Kinesio taping with Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Supervised Exercise therapy
Conventional Physical therapy	Conventional physical therapy	Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Supervised Exercise therapy

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Lumbar range of motion-Modified Schober test	Six weeks	Lumbar flexion range of motion were measured by using modified Schober method
Numerical Pain Rating Scale	Six weeks	Pain, for the Average pain intensity over the last week was measured on a numerical pain rating scale, where 0 represented no pain and 10 represented the worst pain possible
Modified Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire	Six weeks	Disability were measured using the Modified Oswestry Disability Index (MODI) which is a self-rating questionnaire used to evaluate functional physical disability

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Tabuk; 🇸🇦 Tabuk, North West, Saudi Arabia