The Effectiveness of the Massage and the Hypopressive Abdominal Gymnastics on Low Back Pain (MAS-GAH)

University of Seville

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low-back Pain

Treatments: Procedure: GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY- HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC; Procedure: GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY; Procedure: GROUP RECEIVING HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02721914

USeville-MSalas

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main goal of this study is to get to know if applying both, massotherapy plus hypopressive abdominal gymnastics (H.A.G) will reduce the pain of chronic non-specific low back pain. It actually reduces the inability produced by the pain and improve the patient's quality of life as well as the join range of the lumbar spine, way more than these two therapies applied separately.

Full description

Background:

Back pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders in the industrialized society. It is estimated to affect between 70 to 85% of the adult population over their live. The impact of low back pain is widespread in developed countries, and accounts the major spending in economic and health resources, as well as being associated with the leading causes of absenteeism and disability. Diagnosis, in most cases, nonspecific low back pain, the symptoms have no clear cause, so that the source of pain is unknown. In general, a significant percentage progresses to chronic back pain and is accompanied by a limitation of physical activity influenced by improper posture or movement patterns.

Objectives:

To assess the effectiveness of massage therapy and hypopressive abdominal gymnastics, and the combination of both therapeutic modalities, to decrease pain and lumbar disability; and increasing joint mobility and quality of life in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with chronic non-specific low back pain diagnosed and at least 12 weeks of mechanical pain.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients:
• With arterial hypertension diagnosed.
• With progressive neurological deficits.
• Pregnant or suspect that they are pregnant.
• With psychological or psychiatric process diagnosed.
• Under analgesic treatment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY- HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will receive 4 massotherapy sessions and 4 of HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC (HAG).

Treatment:

Procedure: GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY- HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC

GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects of this group will receive a total of 8 sessions of 30 minutes each.

Treatment:

Procedure: GROUP RECEIVING MASSOTHERAPY

GROUP RECEIVING HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects of this group will receive a total of 8 sessions of 30 minutes each.

Treatment:

Procedure: GROUP RECEIVING HYPOPRESSIVE ABDOMINAL GYMNASTIC