A Suggested Functional Exercises Program For Patients With Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain

Doha Ali Amin Ahmed

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: exercises plus advices; Other: advices

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05860218

mechanical low back pain

Details and patient eligibility

About

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 .

Full 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 .

Enrollment: 52 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

advices

Other group

Description:

• Group I (control) will receive advices only.

Treatment:

Other: advices

exercises plus advices

Experimental group

Description:

• Group II (experimental) will receive a suggested functional exercise program plus advises

Treatment:

Other: exercises plus advices

Other: advices