Periodized Resistance Training for Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Low Back Pain
- Interventions
- Behavioral: 16-week supervised heavy resistance training program with weekly undulating periodization
- Registration Number
- NCT04284982
- Lead Sponsor
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Brief Summary
In this study the feasibility is investigated of a 16-week supervised heavy resistance training program with weekly undulating periodization for individuals with persistent non-specific low-back pain.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 24
Inclusion Criteria
- persistent non-specific low back pain with a duration >3 months
- average low back pain intensity last two weeks >= 4 on numerical pain rating scale (0-10 scale)
- no experience with heavy resistance training.
Exclusion Criteria
- previous surgery of the low back
- radiculopathy
- structural spinal changes and/or specific spinal conditions that limit function (spinal stenosis, ankylosing spondylitis, spondylolisthesis/spondylolysis, protrusion, structural scoliosis)
- autoimmune and systemic inflammatory diseases
- cardiovascular disease
- neurological diseases
- severe osteoporosis.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Heavy resistance training program 16-week supervised heavy resistance training program with weekly undulating periodization -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Low back pain intensity on 0-10 Numerical Pain Rating Scale 16 weeks From questionnaire: current pain, pain the last two weeks and pain the last four weeks, scale from 0-10 were 0 equals no pain and 10 equals the worst pain imaginable
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Dept of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
🇳🇴Trondheim, Norway