The Effectiveness of Kinesio Taping in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

University of Tabuk

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain

Treatments: Other: Kinesio taping; Device: Conventional physical therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05173948

UT-79-11-2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of Kinesio taping (KT) with Conventional Physical therapy (CPT) - Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Supervised Exercise therapy and CPT in the management of CLBP.

Full description

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most common causes of chronic disability which leads to major social and economic consequences. The role and effectiveness of the Kinesio taping (KT) and Conventional Physical therapy (CPT) are evident from the existing literature but no comparison was found on the combination of other physical therapy techniques such as supervised exercise therapy and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) with CLBP in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pain caused by mechanical/nonspecific low back pain.
• Degeneration of the spine and intervertebral disc.
• The visual analog scale of pain 4 and above
• Low back pain for at least three months

Exclusion criteria

• Physical therapy treatment is taken in the past 6 months period
• Previous spinal surgery with fixation
• Structural anomalies
• Spinal cord compression
• Severe osteoporosis
• Acute infections
• Severe cardiovascular or metabolic diseases
• Pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Kinesio taping and Conventional Physical therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Kinesio taping with Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Supervised Exercise therapy

Treatment:

Device: Conventional physical therapy

Other: Kinesio taping

Conventional Physical therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Supervised Exercise therapy

Treatment:

Device: Conventional physical therapy