Non-specific Back Pain and Spinal Manipulation

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Status: Completed

Conditions: Non-specific Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Thoracic spinal manipulation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04388007

UQTR-2020-SMTdose

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main purpose of this study is to identify short-term predictors of positive responses to a spinal manipulation treatment. To do this, positive responses to treatment, characterized by improvement in pain score, functional capacity, as well as the global perceived change will be evaluated using single and multiple logistic regressions in which biomechanical variables, comfort, expectation will used as potential predictors.

Full description

The main purpose of this study is to identify short-term predictors of positive responses to a spinal manipulation treatment. To do this, positive responses to treatment, characterized by improvement in pain score, functional capacity, as well as the global perceived change will be evaluated at baseline and at 7 days. Pain score will be also assessed every day with text-tracking. Global perceived change will be evaluated using single and multiple logistic regressions in which biomechanical variables, comfort, expectation will used as potential predictors. 100 individuals with a history of non-specific back pain will be recruited in a chiropractic care center.

Enrollment: 107 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being aged over 18 years old
• Presenting non-specific back pain (chronic >=3 months or recurrent complaint)
• Speaking French or English

Exclusion criteria

• Symptomatic thoracic pain
• Non-musculoskeletal disorders pain
• Pregnancy
• Not eligible to spinal manipulation (if osteoporosis, vertebral fracture history, thoracic disk herniation)