Clinical trial NCT02633917: Motor Control Exercises vs Standard Exercises in Unspecific Low Back Pain
Official title: Motor Control Exercises vs Standard Exercises in Patients With Unspecific Low Back Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Low Back Pain
Keywords: Low back pain
Motor control
Joint mobilization
Lead sponsor: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-12-17
Enrollment: 84
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate and compare the effects of motor control exercises and standard exercises in the pain, incapacity and medicine intake of subjects with unspecific low-back pain.

Detailed description: Eighty-four subjects with unspecific low-back pain were randomly recruited for the present study. The subjects were randomly allocated into control group (who received one hour of standard physiotherapy exercises every days during ten days) or intervention group (who received one hour of control motor exercises every days during ten days). One month after finishing these ten days, patients should perform a home-based exercises program during two months (control group performed home-based standard physiotherapy exercises; intervention group performed home-based motor control exercises). Pain (visual analogic scale), incapacity index (Roland Morris questionnaire) and medicine intake (diary) were evaluated before the intervention, one month and three months after ending the first ten days of intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* subjects should be independent to walk
* subjects should have unspecific low back pain during at least the last two months
* subjects should have had at least two recidives of low back pain within the last year

Exclusion Criteria:

* subjects with concomitant pathologies that impede the performance of exercises
* pregnants
* subjects with oncologic pathologies
* subjects with cognitive alterations that impede the understanding of the tests

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in pain level from baseline at one month and three months after the intervention, measured with a visual analogic scale.
timeFrame: The day before beginning the intervention, one month and three months after the first ten days of intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in incapacity index from baseline at one month and three months after the intervention, measured with the Roland Morris questionnaire.
timeFrame: The day before beginning the intervention, one month and three months after the first ten days of intervention
measure: Change in medication intake from baseline at one month and three months after the intervention, measured with a diary that subjects should complete.
timeFrame: The day before beginning the intervention, one month and three months after the first ten days of intervention
Other outcomes:
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Study officials:
affiliation: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
name: Gustavo Plaza-Manzano, Ph.D
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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