Exercise and Low Back Pain

Hannover Medical School (MHH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers With and Without Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02029131

SpoMed Low Back

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of the effectiveness of an individually educated exercise program for the lower back at home in employees over a period of 20 weeks.

We hypothesize that regular exercise for the lower back results in greater improvements of low back strengths compared to controls.

Enrollment: 226 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 67 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• men and women
• age between 18 and 67 years

Exclusion criteria

• beeing currently involved in an exercise program for the lower back
• known drug or alcohol abuse
• any disease that excludes the participation in an exercise program
• clinical relevant acute or chronic infections
• pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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226 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise

Controls

No Intervention group