Periodized Resistance Training for Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Low Back Pain

• 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

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-09-04
• Primary Completion: 2017-12-21
• Study Completion: 2017-12-21
• Status Verified: 2020-02
• Study First Submitted: 2020-02-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-02-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-02-24
• Study First Posted: 2020-02-26
• Last Update Posted: 2020-02-26

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

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

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Dept of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; 🇳🇴 Trondheim, Norway