Effects of Core Stabilization and Strengthening Exercise on Quality of Life in Clinical Lumbar Instability

Khon Kaen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: General Strengthening Exercise; Other: Core Stabilization Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02895828

HE562257

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will compare the effects of 2 exercise programs including core stabilization exercise and general trunk strengthening exercise programs on trunk muscle activity, physical dysfunction, quality of life and lumbar motion in low back pain patient with clinical lumbar instability.

Full description

Clinical lumbar instability is the one of causes of chronic low back pain, that affects to pain intensity and quality of life. For clinical studies using core stabilization exercise (CSE) as treatment have revealed conflicting findings on pain, functional disability and muscle responses in chronic low back pain. The CSE promotes local muscle system that to provide lumbar stability. However, the stability of spine related to global muscle system, that using in this study.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Chronic low back pain due to clinical lumbar instability

Exclusion criteria

• Specific low back pain
• Cuada equine syndrome
• Neurological deficit

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Core Stabilization Exercise (CSE)

Experimental group

Description:

The participants asked to performed CSE program, 20 min/session, 2 session/week, 10 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Core Stabilization Exercise

General Strengthening Exercise (GSE)

Experimental group

Description:

The participants asked to performed GSE program, 20 min/session, 2 session/week, 10 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: General Strengthening Exercise