New Technologies in the Management of Lumbopelvic Pain

Alexander Achalandabaso

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rehabilitation; Exercise; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: therapeutic exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04685837

CEID/HU/2020/48

Details and patient eligibility

About

Lumbopelvic pain represents one of the leading causes of disability and pain in the world population. It is estimated that 84% of the world's population will suffer from lumbar pelvic pain in their lifetime. This high prevalence causes it to be classified as a public health problem.

Traditional primary care measures have failed to reduce the prevalence, recurrences and costs of this pathology. In the search for treatments focused on reducing public spending, the concept of tele-rehabilitation appears. It is a tool, via telematics, that provides knowledge on rehabilitation and education in neurobiology of pain, demonstrated in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. It has been suggested that the use of this instrument could help improve the patient's quality of life at the biopsychosocial level.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18-65 years.
• Non-specific low back pain less than 12 weeks of evolution.
• Knowledge of new information and communication technologies.
• Internet access.

Exclusion criteria

• Inflammatory pathologies of the locomotor system.
• Infectious processes.
• Oncological processes.
• Neurodegenerative diseases.
• Pain with neuropathic characteristics.
• Fractures.
• Lack of fluency in Spanish.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Tele-rehabilitation group

Experimental group

Description:

The participants randomly assigned to the tele-rehabilitation group will use a computer application to know and execute the exercise protocol. Before starting the protocol, each participant will be assessed by the principal investigator. He will explain how the application works. They will perform 2 sessions of therapeutic exercise for 8 weeks. At the end of the protocol, they will be re-evaluated by the principal investigator.

Treatment:

Other: therapeutic exercise

Face to face group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants randomly assigned to the face-to-face group will use the physical therapy clinic to do the exercises controlled by the principal investigator. Before starting the protocol, each participant will be assessed by the principal investigator. He will explain how the protocol works. They will perform 2 sessions of therapeutic exercise for 8 weeks. At the end of the protocol, they will be re-evaluated by the principal investigator.

Treatment:

Other: therapeutic exercise