Effect of Strength Training for Chronic Low Back Pain Patients (IRMA20)

National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Strength training; Behavioral: Usual care (control)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03172962

IRMA20

Details and patient eligibility

About

Low back pain (LBP) is common in the population and has great socioeconomic consequences for societies across Europe and the United States. About a third of working-age adults have frequent LBP, and for about 10% the pain becomes chronic with consequences for work and leisure activities. A Cochrane review from April 2017 concluded that physical exercise is an intervention with few adverse events and positive outcomes on pain and function in adults with chronic pain. However, when scrutinizing the specific studies of the review there are large differences in adherence to the exercise interventions and consequently in the results obtained. Thus, there is a need for simple exercises that the patients can easily adhere to.

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Non-specific Chronic low back pain patient (more than 3 months) at the hospital Arnau de Vilanova

Exclusion criteria

• Spine surgery
• neurologic or psyquiatric disorders
• Low back traumastism
• Recent participation in a similar training program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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85 participants in 2 patient groups

Strength training

Experimental group

Description:

Specific strength training exercises for the lumbar and abdominal muscles for 8 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual care (control)

Behavioral: Strength training

Usual care (control)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Will receive the usual care at the hospital

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual care (control)