Clinical trial NCT05649774: Effects of Taping & Exercise Therapy on Lower Back Musculoskeletal Conditions in Pakistani Patients
Official title: Effects of Taping & Exercise Therapy on Lower Back Musculoskeletal Conditions in Pakistani Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Lower Back Pain
Musculoskeletal Diseases or Conditions
Keywords: Lower back pain
Non specific lower back pain
Lead sponsor: University of Karachi
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-12-14
Enrollment: 100
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 28
Maximum age (years): 38
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The study was a parallel group, four arm superiority trial with 1:1 allocation ratio and balanced randomization
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Lower back pain has been one of the most frequently occurring musculoskeletal disorder among the females. This act as a global burden and is highly prevalent in our society. This pain can result in life long disability, loss of function and mobility among individuals. The female of the society suffers from lower back pain the most because of the under lying causes, prolong standing and stooping as well as because of hormonal changes in their bodies

Detailed description: After studying the prevalence of the lower back pain among the females of Pakistan, the investogator find the need to assess the type of their pain and find out the best way to ease their pains. The motive was to develop a treatment protocol whose effects last longer and is inexpensive for the management of lower back pain.

Moreover, the investigator decided to study that which treatment protocol is better when compared to another and what is the role of sham treatment when given to the patients.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Females who were willing to participate.
* Participants with nonspecific lower back pain will only be included and screened through the screening questionnaire.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Post-menopausal women
* Females with any diagnosed co-morbidity.
* Back pain progressive to any neurological deficit
* Sustained or increased back pain with loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss accompanied with fever, nausea and chills
* With any known spinal or lower back pathology
* Tumor of the spine
* Any underlying diseases of spinal cord (i.e, ankylosing spondylosis, spondolisthesis)
* With any steroid therapy for lower back pain in the past three months
* Any inflammatory rheumatic disease
* Sensitive skin or any skin allergy or dermatological condition
* Any rehabilitative services taken for the lower back pain in the past two months
* Rejection to manual conatct

Primary outcomes:
measure: Lower Back Pain
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3
measure: Disability of lower back
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Range of Motion
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3
measure: Pain Pressure Threshold
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3
measure: Tissue Hardness
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3
measure: Quality of Life of patients with Lower back pain
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Karachi
country: Pakistan
facility: Al-Tibri Medical college and hospital
state: Sindh
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Karachi
name: Kiran Arshad, M.Phil
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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