Central Mechanism of Manual Therapy for Low Back Pain

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Spinal Manipulation; Other: Placebo Spinal Manipulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03078114

12919

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine the change of nervous system activity before and after spinal manipulation treatment program in people with low back pain.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of subacute low back pain
• Ability to read and understand English

Exclusion criteria

• Previous low back surgery
• Severe structural spinal deformity
• Neurological compromise resulting in current nerve root entrapment
• Spinal cord compression
• Tumor
• Severe spinal instability
• Severe osteoporosis
• Psychiatric disease
• Head trauma
• Spinal infection
• Known cardiovascular or metabolic disease
• Known neurological, neuromuscular or orthopedic problems that might prevent them from participating in manual therapy interventions
• Pregnancy
• Mini-Mental State Examination score < 25
• Body Mass Index (BMI) < 18 or > 30
• Pain or paresthesia below the knees
• Systemic illness known to affect sensation i.e. diabetes
• Acute and/or chronic pain condition unrelated to LBP

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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29 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Spinal Manipulation

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects with subacute low back pain. Subjects will receive 6 treatments of Spinal Manipulation (SM) over 2 consecutive weeks

Treatment:

Other: Spinal Manipulation

Placebo Spinal Manipulation

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Subjects with subacute low back pain. Subjects will be asked to visit the clinic for 6 times. The clinician will go through SM motions but the spine will not actually be manipulated.

Treatment:

Other: Placebo Spinal Manipulation