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Effects of Unstable Shoes on Trunk Muscle Activity, Lumbar Spine Kinematics and Pain in Patients With Low Back Pain

C

Cardenal Herrera University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Treatments

Other: Unstable shoe

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02606370
UNIVERSITY CARDENAL HERRERA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: To compare trunk muscle activity, lumbar spine range of motion (ROM) and LBP during gait using an unstable shoe (Intervention group) and a conventional stable control shoe (Control Group).

Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Setting: A Biomechanics laboratory. Population: Patients with Low Back Pain.

Full description

Background: An unstable shoe was developed as a walking device to strengthen the lower extremity muscles and reduce joint loading. A large number of studies have reported increased electromyographic (EMG) activity throughout the gait cycle in most of the lower limb muscles, and significant kinematic changes in the lower extremity. However, no studies have investigated the effects of wearing (1 month) unstable shoes on 1) spine kinematics, 2) trunk muscle activity and 3) Low Back Pain (LBP) during gait in Patients with chronic LBP.

Aim: To compare trunk muscle activity, lumbar spine range of motion (ROM) and LBP during gait using an unstable shoe (Intervention group) and a conventional stable control shoe (Control Group).

Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Setting: A Biomechanics laboratory. Population: Patients with Low Back Pain.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with Chronic LBP
  • BMI < 30

Exclusion criteria

  • Hernia
  • Lower limb pathologies
  • Previous experience with unstable shoes

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Unstable shoes
Experimental group
Description:
Wearing unstable shoes during 1 month
Treatment:
Other: Unstable shoe
Control Group
No Intervention group
Description:
Not Wearing unstable shoes

Trial contacts and locations

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