Aquatic and Land Exercises in Chronic Low Back Pain

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Aquatic and Land Exercises on Chronic Low Back Pain

Detailed Description
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The Effect of Aquatic and Land Exercises on Pain, Health Related Quality of Life, Kinesiophobia and Disability in Chronic Low Back Pain

Official Title
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The Effect of Aquatic and Land Exercises on Pain, Health Related Quality of Life, Kinesiophobia and Disability in Chronic Low Back Pain

Conditions
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Chronic Low-back Pain

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: exercise


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: patients had to be diagnosed with clinical examination and radiological findings of low back pain from at least 6 months. Exclusion Criteria: acute pain

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 20 Years
Maximum Age: 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: The Effect of Aquatic Exercises on Pain, quality of life<br>Water-based exercise program was conducted in the second group of 15 patients in an indoor swimming pool. Temperature of mineral water was 36 °C. The program included warming up by walking forwards, sideways and backwards through the water in the pool; active range of motion of the joints of the lower extremities; stretching lower extremities; strengthening exercises for hips, knees, arms, elbows and wrists; and cooling down (slow walking, squatting and standing). | Other: exercise<br>* exercise for low back pain<br>|
| Experimental: The Effect of Land Exercises on Pain, Quality of life<br>Land-based exercise program included abdominal and back strengthening exercises. | Other: exercise<br>* exercise for low back pain<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| pain in low back pain after aqua and land exercises | It is asked to mark pain on a 10 cm scale.Pain was assessed at rest and at movement by using a 10-cm-long visual (0 cm means no pain while 10 cm means worst pain | 4 week | 
| quality of life after aqua and land exercises | Quality of life was assessed by Short-Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) High scores indicate good quality of life and low scores represent poor quality of life. | 4 week | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| disability in low back paitients after aqua and land exercise | .For disability assessment, the Modified Oswestry Disability İndex was used . According to the sum of scale; 0-4 points were considered as no disability, 5-14 points were mild, 15-24 points were moderate, 25-34 points were serious, and 35-50 points were fully functional inadequacy. | 4 week | 
| kinesiophobia in low back paitients after aqua and land exercise | The assessment of kinesiophobia was made with the Tampa Scale The fact that the individual got a high score from the questionnaire shows that she has more fear of movement. | 4 week | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Pain,, Land Exercises, Aquatic Exercises, Chronic Low Back Pain,, Functional status