Clinical trial NCT06330792: Effect of Bio-mechanical Awareness and Core Stability Exercises on Mechanical Low Back Pain
Official title: Effect of Bio-mechanical Awareness and Core Stability Exercises on Mechanical Low Back Pain Among Egyptian Physiotherapists
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mechanical Low Back Pain
Keywords: mechanical awareness
core stability exercises
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-03-26
Enrollment: 66
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 25
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Physiotherapists will be randomly subdivided into two equal groups in number. Group (A) (Experimental Group): This group will receive biomechanical awareness advices while working and core stability exercises.

Group (B) (Control Group): This group will receive core stability exercises only.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: investigate the effect of bio-mechanical awareness and core stability exercises on mechanical low back pain among Egyptian Physiotherapists

Detailed description: The aims of this study are:

1. to investigate the effect of bio-mechanical awareness and core stability exercises on the intensity of low back pain among Egyptian Physiotherapists.
2. to investigate the effect of bio-mechanical awareness and core stability exercises on and back muscle endurance among Egyptian Physiotherapists.
3. to investigate the effect of bio-mechanical awareness and core stability exercises on level of function (disability) associated with low back pain among Egyptian Physiotherapists.
4. to investigate the effect of bio-mechanical awareness and core stability exercises on fatigue among Egyptian Physiotherapists.
5. to investigate the effect of bio-mechanical awareness and core stability exercises on psycho-social factors at work among Egyptian Physiotherapists.

Eligibility criteria: inclusion criteria:

* Egyptian Physiotherapists with non-specific low back pain.
* Physiotherapy graduate who worked for at least two years (Khairy et al.,2019).
* Age range from 25 to 40 years old (Pellissier et al., 2023).
* Male and female.
* Normal BMI ranges between 18.5:24.9 kg/m2.

exclusion criteria:

* Physiotherapists outside the target range age an BMI.
* Students of physical therapy or Physiotherapists who worked for less than two years.
* Physiotherapists who had lumbar spine surgery.
* Physiotherapists who had history sever lumbar problem spondylolisthesis, tumor, fracture.
* Physiotherapists who suffers from vertigo.

Primary outcomes:
measure: intensity of low back pain
timeFrame: 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: back muscle endurance
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: level of function (disability) associated with mechanical Low Back Pain
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Fatigue Severity
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: psycho-social factors at work
timeFrame: 1 month
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