Postural Re-education in Low Back Pain

University of Bologna

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 1

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Treatments

Other: Standard Exercise Training

Other: Global Postural Re-education

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00789204

FB001022008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Global Postural Re-Education is a global approach for the treatment of musculoskeletal disease. Using specific progressive posture for stretching particular shortened chain muscle the method wants to equilibrate the never-ending war between static and dynamic muscles by guiding the patient in a particular breathing pattern to maintain a correct posture and feeling it.

Full description

In some countries there is a physical therapy method called "Global Posture Reeducation" (GPR), which was developed by Philippe Emmanuel Souchard based on 20 years of clinical experience.The method consist to balance the miofascial tension probably responsible for an articular overloading. The method stretches the shortened antigravity muscles that are inside a different static muscles chains. GPR is a global approach that search the biomechanics cause in the near areas, and involves actively the patient in the postural and gestural changes.

Enrollment

100 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Lumbalgia Diagnosis
Age 18-80

Exclusion criteria

Migrated hernia
Calcified disc hernia
Spondylolisthesis
Other physiotherapeutic interventions within 6 months of the baseline assessment.
Surgical operation within six months of baseline
Cancer syndrome, Neurological and rheumatic diseases