Clinical trial NCT05860218: A Suggested Functional Exercises Program For Patients With Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain
Official title: A Suggested Functional Exercises Program For Patients With Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Cairo University
First posted: 2023-05-16
Enrollment: 52
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 25
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The aim of this study will be to investigate the effect of functional exercise on pain, functional disability and core strength in patients with chronic mechanical low back pain .

Detailed description: To our knowledge, there has been not enough studies that investigated the effect of core strengthening by functional exercise on pain, functional disability and core muscle strength in patients with chronic mechanical low back pain. Therefore, this study may open up ways to other researchers to investigate and build up on this effect if present and address such an important issue.

the finding of this proposed work may help patients with chronic mechanical low back pain by addressing their pain, functional limitation, and/or participation restrictions. Consequently, this can speed up their recovery, return to work, decrease cost of treatment, improve psychological status, decrease level of irritability, and improve overall quality of life.

Patients with chronic mechanical low back pain will be recruited after approval of ethical committee of the faculty of physical therapy, Cairo University. All participants will sign a written informed consent form.

The subjects will be randomly assigned into one of two groups:

* Group I (control) will receive advices only.
* Group II (experimental) will receive a suggested functional exercise program plus advises.

the measurments will take before and after treatment programe .

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Chronic mechanical low back pain and their age will be ranged from 20 -45 years.
* History of chronic low back pain (≥3 months).
* Patients with Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18-28

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age younger than 20 or older than 45 years of age.
* History of any surgical procedure in the back or the lower extremities
* Back pain secondary to known specific pathology (e.g. infection, tumor, osteoporosis, fracture, structural deformity, inflammatory disorder (e.g. ankylosing spondylitis) or cauda equine syndrome).
* Patient with lumbar instability including spondylolisthesis.
* Red flags (e.g. fever, unexplained weight loss, progressive weakness, radiation to lower limb, bowel and bladder dysfunction).
* Pregnancy.

Primary outcomes:
measure: pain in lower back
timeFrame: change from max pain point in 1 month
measure: functional disability
timeFrame: change in 1 month
measure: core muscles stability
timeFrame: change in 1 month
measure: lower limb function
timeFrame: change in 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Cairo university
Study officials:
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