Aquatic Exercises for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Aquatic Exercises; Other: Deep-water running

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02422693

# 04/2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to compare the effect of aquatic exercises (AEG) to the aquatic exercises plus aerobic training (deep-water running) (AEDWRG) on functional status and pain in patients with specific chronic low back pain.

Full description

In general, the population will have at least one episode of low back pain during their lifetime, with recurrence in most cases. Several treatments have been proposed for these patients and the evidence is still not clear about the effectiveness of aquatic exercises when compared to other modalities of exercises in the water. This study will be a randomized controlled trial following the Consort-Statement principles. The subjects, aged between 20 and 50 years, after signing the informed consent will be randomly allocated to one group treatment: aquatic exercises (AEG) or aquatic exercises associated to deep-water running (AEDWRG). The duration of the protocol will be set at 12 weeks, 3x-week.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Exclusive diagnosis of chronic low back pain (more than 12 weeks)

Exclusion criteria

• Central nervous system disease
• Pregnant
• Fear of water

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Aquatic exercises

Experimental group

Description:

Warm-up, lumbar mobilization, stretching and relaxation. 3x-week (9 weeks), indoor pool, 32o.C/89.6o.F.

Treatment:

Other: Aquatic Exercises

Aquatic exercises + Deep-water running

Active Comparator group

Description:

Same as AEG with addition of 20 minutes of running without touch the ground, 3x-week (9 weeks), indoor pool, 30o.C/86o.F.

Treatment:

Other: Aquatic Exercises

Other: Deep-water running