Periodized Resistance Training for Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: 16-week supervised heavy resistance training program with weekly undulating periodization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04284982

2017/905

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study the feasibility is investigated of a 16-week supervised heavy resistance training program with weekly undulating periodization for individuals with persistent non-specific low-back pain.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• persistent non-specific low back pain with a duration >3 months
• average low back pain intensity last two weeks >= 4 on numerical pain rating scale (0-10 scale)
• no experience with heavy resistance training.

Exclusion criteria

• previous surgery of the low back
• radiculopathy
• structural spinal changes and/or specific spinal conditions that limit function (spinal stenosis, ankylosing spondylitis, spondylolisthesis/spondylolysis, protrusion, structural scoliosis)
• autoimmune and systemic inflammatory diseases
• cardiovascular disease
• neurological diseases
• severe osteoporosis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 1 patient group

Heavy resistance training program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: 16-week supervised heavy resistance training program with weekly undulating periodization