Investigating the Effect of Traditional Iranian Manual Technique on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pai

Not Applicable

Conditions: ow Back Pain.
Low back pain
M54.5

Registration Number: IRCT20230502058050N1

Lead Sponsor: Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Pending

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 108

Inclusion Criteria

Personal and informed consent of the individual to participate in the research project
Presence of chronic low back pain (history of more than three months of pain)
Age range between 20 and 70 years old

Exclusion Criteria

The presence of paresthesia and radicular pain and any specific pathology such as nerve root inflammation, spinal canal stenosis, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, vertebral fracture (clinical examination by a neurosurgeon to rule out any pathology)
Non-mechanical back pain (wakes the patient up at night or causes pain and dryness in the morning)
Fever, sweating and unexplained weight loss in the last few months
Long-term corticosteroid therapy
The symptoms of horse tail syndrome include numbness and weakness of both legs, pain in the anus, numbness of the perineum, paralysis of the sphincters.

Study & Design

Study Type: interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intensity of pain. Timepoint: Before and immediately after the intervention and one week after the intervention. Method of measurement: VAS questionnaire.;Degree of disability. Timepoint: Before and one week after the intervention. Method of measurement: Roland Morris questionnaire.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The number of diclofenac tablets taken. Timepoint: One week after the intervention. Method of measurement: Counting and averaging the number of pills taken daily.