Kinesio Taping on Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Functional elastic tape tensioned; Other: Rigid Tape; Other: Functional elastic tape non-tensioned

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02550457

056666/2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study propose analyze the effects of Kinesio Taping® in chronic nonspecific low back pain. All the subjects will be submitted to an evaluation of the painful sensation, functional performance, trunk range of motion and neuromuscular performance at three different times.

Enrollment: 108 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female between 18 and 50 years of age with chronic nonspecific low back pain for more than three months.

Exclusion criteria

• Serious spinal pathologies (fractures, tumors, and inflammatory pathologies such as ankylosing spondylitis);
• Nerve root compromise (disc herniation and spondylolisthesis with neurological compromise, spinal stenosis, and others);
• Fibromyalgia
• Corticosteroid treatment in the previous two weeks;
• Antiinflammatory treatment in the previous 24 hours;
• Contraindications to the use of Kinesio Taping (allergy or intolerance);
• Score of two or less on Visual Analogue Scale of the first day;
• Pregnancy;
• Previous Kinesio Tape therapy on lumbar.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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108 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

It will not apply any tape.

Experimental group 1

Experimental group

Description:

Apply the KT with tension in the erector spine muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Functional elastic tape tensioned

Experimental group 2

Experimental group

Description:

Apply the KT without tension in the erector spine muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Functional elastic tape non-tensioned

Placebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Apply Micropore tape in the erector spine muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Rigid Tape