Effectiveness of Chiropractic Application for Acute Low Back Pain

Medipol University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Low Back Pain, Mechanical

Treatments: Other: Chiropractic Treatment; Drug: diclophenac sodium (75 mg, IM) and thiocolchicoside (4 mg, IM)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04110119

IMUEC441

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of chiropractic application on patients who have undergone routine medication as a standard hospital treatment for mechanical low-back pain as described in the Clinical Practice Guidelines

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged between 19 and 65.
• Acute lower-back pain, persisting less than 6 weeks, meeting the diagnostic classification of 1 or 2 according to the Quebec Task Force on Spinal Disorders

Exclusion criteria

• Previous spine surgery
• Spinal nerve root irritation or deficits,
• Pregnant women,
• Lower-back pain due to occupational accidents
• Obesity status (body mass index> 30).
• Chronic lower-back pain longer than 6 weeks.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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98 participants in 2 patient groups

Control: Drug-Only Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients with acute lower-back pain who have undergone routine conventional drug treatment at the first visit to the emergency department (49 patients). The drug treatment consists of analgesic-anti-inflammatory (diclophenac sodium 75 mg IM) and myorelaxant (thiocolchicoside 4 mg IM), administered only once.

Treatment:

Drug: diclophenac sodium (75 mg, IM) and thiocolchicoside (4 mg, IM)

Case: Drug and Chiropractic Group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients, who received chiropractic treatment immediately after the conventional drug treatment as in the control group (49 patients). The chiropractic treatment consists of high speed and low amplitude spinal manipulation techniques, applied only once.

Treatment:

Other: Chiropractic Treatment

Drug: diclophenac sodium (75 mg, IM) and thiocolchicoside (4 mg, IM)