The Immediate Effect Of Shockwave Therapy On the Quadratus Lumborum (QL) Muscle Trigger Points vs Regular Back Exercises in Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 78
- 主要终点
- The Oswestry Disability Index
研究概览
简要总结
the study aims to compare the effect of regular back exercises with shockwave therapy by treating male patients with non-specific low back pain between the age of (20-40). Who will be devided into 3 groups, and will be treated by shockwave therapy , exercises or both combined. After signing a consent form, patients will be assigned to the groups blindly, so the patients will not know if they are in the experimental or control group.
Hypothesis:
The hypothesis of this study states that:
o Research hypothesis: there will be a significant difference between the radial ESWT and back exercises in reducing LBP
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 40 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Only male patients will be included.
- •Age 20-40 years old.
- •Non-specific LBP for at least 3 months.
- •At least one local tenderness or active trigger point in the anatomical region of the QL muscle.
- •Pain intensity on numerical pain scale should be more than 4
排除标准
- •LBP due to a pathology or trauma.
- •Below 20 years of age.
- •Previous lumbar surgeries.
- •Malignancy.
- •Patients under medications or painkillers.
研究组 & 干预措施
shockwave group
干预措施: shockwave machine (Device)
exercise group
干预措施: leg and back exercises (Other)
combined group
干预措施: shockwave and exercises (Combination Product)
结局指标
主要结局
The Oswestry Disability Index
时间窗: 45 minutes session
is an extremely important tool that researchers and disability evaluators use to measure a patient's permanent functional disability, scoring from 0 to 50, the lower score the better
Numerical pain scale
时间窗: 45 minutes session
0-10 the lower the better
pressure-pain threshold
时间窗: 45 hour session
Algometry device will be used to measure three thresholds' values: * Tenderness threshold. * Referred pain threshold. * Pain tolerance threshold.
次要结局
- ROM of the back(45 minutes session)
研究者
Maram Mohammed Taha Makki
physiotherapist / master student
University of Sharjah