Clinical trial NCT01258543: Osteopathic Evaluation on Patients With Non-specific Back Pain: An Inter-examiner Reliability Study
Official title: Osteopathic Evaluation on Patients With Non-specific Back Pain: An Observational Inter-examiner Reliability Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Inter-examiner Reliability
Location and Nature of Restriction or Lesion
Non-specific Back Pain
Keywords: Global osteopathic evaluation
Non-specific back pain
Inter-examiner reliability
Lead sponsor: Kirnan, Jaime
Sponsor class: INDIV
First posted: 2010-12-13
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Community Sample

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether two osteopathic evaluators with less than 5 years experience will be able to determine the same location and nature of the primary lesion(s) or restriction(s)in patients with chronic non-specific back pain using a global osteopathic evaluation approach.

Detailed description: Back pain is one of the leading causes of consultation for rehabilitation. Establishing a diagnosis in the initial patient assessment is essential to choosing a specific treatment plan for that patient, regardless of the type of therapy the patient chooses to pursue. Evidence based medicine is the current gold standard for most manual-therapy professions, and there has been a great deal of research performed in an attempt to give credibility to the one tool that all manual therapy professions share in common: palpation. Few studies have been able to demonstrate an acceptable rate of inter-examiner reliability for palpation. This study will combine a global testing regime, consensus training for evaluators, and access to history of injury with symptomatic subjects to verify the inter-examiner reliability of an osteopathic evaluation on patients with chronic, non-specific low back pain.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Men and women ages 18-60
* Must have a history of non-specific back pain (not due to any known pathology eg. disc herniation or disc degenerative disease) that is currently not irritated and has not been, in the past 8 weeks
* Must be available for 3 consecutive hour

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients with a known cause for their back pain
* Patients who have had a flare up of symptoms within the last 8 weeks
* Patients who are currently undergoing any rehabilitation or who have received manual treatment in the last 8 weeks.
* Patients who are taking daily medications for pain
* Pregnant women
* Major medical conditions: fractures, degenerative arthritis, inflammatory disorders, ankylosing spondylitis, multiple sclerosis, cancer, paralysis stroke or recent concussion history
* Any other conditions that would prevent the participant from completing the evaluation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Inter-examiner reliability
timeFrame: Day 1
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Brossard
country: Canada
facility: Concordia Physio Sport
state: Quebec
Study officials:
name: René Pelletier, MSc., D.O
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
name: Sabrina Silla, BSc., PT, DO
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
name: Jaime Kirnan, BSc., CAT(c)
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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