Action Observation Training in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain (LBP-AOT)

Istituto Clinico Humanitas

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: AOT; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Action Observation training; Other: Active Exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04157374

CLF19/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a single-blind controlled randomized clinical trial.

Full description

Patients will be recruited and then randomly assigned by an external collaborator to the experimental group or to the control group. To the patients that belong to the experimental group will be asked to watch a video showing a person carrying out some exercises (12 exercises: 3 of stretching, 3 of core stability, 3 of mobilization and 3 of functional) and then they will have to practice them.On the other hand, to the patients that belong to the control group will be given a brochure with the same exercises the patients of the experimental group received through the video. Both groups will have to watch the video or read the brochure and repeat the exercises 5 times per week for 3 weeks. Patients will be evaluated before the treatment (T0), three weeks after the beginning (T1) and 4 months upon the end of it (T2). The evaluation will consist in the administration of the Oswestry Disability Index, of the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia, of the Numerical Rating Scale and of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36.

A physiotherapist will instruct the patients about the exercises while a second one blinded about the belonging group of patients, will administer the evaluation scales.

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with chronic aspecific LBP (documented story of more than 12 week-long symptomatology)
• Good understanding of Italian language
• Aged over 65

Exclusion criteria

• Severe sight or hearing impairement
• Cognitive deficit (assessed by a Mini Mental State Examination score ≤21 [14]).
• Specific LBP (previous spine surgery, deformation, infection, fracture, malignant tumor, general disorders or neuromuscular pathologies)
• Patients who previously experimented AOT

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

EXPERIMENTAL GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

AOT and Active exercises

Treatment:

Other: Action Observation training

Other: Active Exercises

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Active exercises

Treatment:

Other: Active Exercises