Effects of Manual Lumbar and Prone Traction in Patients With Low Back Pain (L&PtracinLBP)

Obafemi Awolowo University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Non-specific Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Prone traction; Other: Manual lumbar traction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05518552

Ojo/2022/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study determined the effects of manual Lumbar traction and prone traction on some clinical variables of patients with long standing low back pain.

Full description

Traction therapy has been used in the management of low back pain (LBP) especially None Specific Low Back Pain. There are several recommendations on how lumbar traction should be performed, but the type of technique to be applied differs among the sources. Prone traction adapted from inversion therapy which is a form of gravitational traction has been reported to be effective in ameliorating disabilities of patients with low back pain as well reduce pain intensity. Manual lumbar traction is performed by the therapist, pulling at the patient's ankles and has been reported to be effective in relieving pain and reducing disability of patient with None Specific Low Back Pain (NSLBP). Documented evidences on the efficacy of traction in non-specific low back pain are still inconclusive. While manual lumbar traction seems more commonly used, probably owing to its positional advantage, its relative effectiveness compared with manual prone traction is still unknown, hence this study. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of manual lumbar traction and prone traction on pain intensity, disability, spinal range of motion and quality of life in patients with None Specific Low Back Pain.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants diagnosed with Non-Specific Low Back Pain of not less than 3 months duration who were referred by a physician.
• Participants between the ages of 40 years and older.

Exclusion criteria

• Low back pain patients with specific pathology, such as systemic inflammatory diseases, pregnancy, fractures of the spine, tumors, infections.
• Participants with pathology affecting the trunk or upper and lower extremities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 2 patient groups

manual Lumbar Traction

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects consist of 25 patients with chronic low back pain. They underwent a manual lumbar traction with Physiotherapist pulling the patients while lying prone on a couch

Treatment:

Other: Manual lumbar traction

Prone traction

Experimental group

Description:

This group consist of patients with non specific chronic low back pain that were put on prone traction.

Treatment:

Other: Prone traction