Motor Control Exercises vs Standard Exercises in Unspecific Low Back Pain

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Motor control exercises; Behavioral: Standard exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02633917

CI 10/374

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate and compare the effects of motor control exercises and standard exercises in the pain, incapacity and medicine intake of subjects with unspecific low-back pain.

Full description

Eighty-four subjects with unspecific low-back pain were randomly recruited for the present study. The subjects were randomly allocated into control group (who received one hour of standard physiotherapy exercises every days during ten days) or intervention group (who received one hour of control motor exercises every days during ten days). One month after finishing these ten days, patients should perform a home-based exercises program during two months (control group performed home-based standard physiotherapy exercises; intervention group performed home-based motor control exercises). Pain (visual analogic scale), incapacity index (Roland Morris questionnaire) and medicine intake (diary) were evaluated before the intervention, one month and three months after ending the first ten days of intervention.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• subjects should be independent to walk
• subjects should have unspecific low back pain during at least the last two months
• subjects should have had at least two recidives of low back pain within the last year

Exclusion criteria

• subjects with concomitant pathologies that impede the performance of exercises
• pregnants
• subjects with oncologic pathologies
• subjects with cognitive alterations that impede the understanding of the tests

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

Motor control exercises

Experimental group

Description:

One group should perform motor control exercises

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motor control exercises

Standard exercises

Active Comparator group

Description:

the other group should perform standard physiotherapy exercises

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard exercises