Clinical trial NCT05562648: Efficacy of Manual Therapy Techniques and Electrotherapy Modalities in Individuals With Non-specific Low Back Pain
Official title: Comparison of the Efficacy of Manual Therapy Techniques and Electrotherapy Modalities in Individuals With Non-specific Low Back Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Back Pain
Keywords: manuel therapy
Lead sponsor: Istanbul Medipol University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-10-03
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Low back pain is the fifth most common reason for doctor visits, affecting about 60-80% of people in their lifetime. Despite this, there are not enough diagnostic and treatment methods in the literature to fully elucidate non-specific low back pain. In this case, the research showed that non-specific low back pain should be handled with a biopsychosocial approach, and its relationship with fascia and myofascial meridians should be investigated.

Detailed description: According holistic that approach patients with non-specific low back pain. Instead of examining the problem of low back pain in the society only in the form of muscles, joints, ligaments, etc.; should evaluate low back pain over the fascia. It is seen that most studies in the literature only examine the painful area and tissue problems in its immediate vicinity, and therefore they approach low back pain with symptomatic treatment. In recent studies, however, the main problem is not limited to the painful area only; It has been determined that the tissue response caused by the problems in different parts of the body is transmitted to more distant regions via the fascia and myofascial meridians.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being between the ages of 18-60
* Volunteering to work
* The person has a complaint of low back pain for more than 3 months
* Diagnosis of chronic low back pain by the doctor
* Being able to read and write and be cooperative.
* Not having received treatment for the lumbar region in the last 3 months
* having an MRI in the last 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not having any lumbar surgery or vertebral fracture
* Having neurological, radiculopathy, inflammatory, etc. disease
* Having spinal deformities such as scoliosis, kyphosis
* Having a vestibular or respiratory disorder
* Having auditory or cognitive impairment
* Medication that will affect the balance (sedatives, etc.)
* Patients with lower extremity amputation
* Those who want to quit working during the study period, those who do not attend regularly.
* Conditions such as cancer, infection, etc. in the spinal region

Primary outcomes:
measure: Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Beck Depression Scale
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Pittsburgh Sleep Survey Index:
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Modified Schober Test:
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The Visual Analog Scale (VAS)
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Fingertip-to-Floor Test
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Medipol hospital
state: Istanbul Avrupa Kitasi
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