The Effects of Dance Therapy in Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

Hasan Kalyoncu University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain; Chronic Pain; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Pyhsiotherapy Modalities; Other: Exercise Group; Other: Dance Therapy Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05301491

2021/025

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of dance therapy on balance, falling, body awareness and functionality parameters in patients with chronic low back pain. As a result of our study, it is thought that dance therapy will positively affect balance, falling, body awareness and functionality in patients with chronic low back pain compared to conventional therapy.

H 1: Dance therapy improves balance in women with chronic low back pain.

H 2: Dance therapy reduces the risk of falling in women with chronic low back pain.

H 3: Dance therapy increases body awareness in women with chronic low back pain.

H 4: Dance therapy increases functionality in women with chronic low back pain.

H 5: Dance therapy provides more improvement in the parameters investigated compared to conventional therapy in women with chronic low back pain.

Full description

Individuals diagnosed with chronic low back pain and meeting the inclusion criteria are going to be included in the study. These individuals are going to be divided into groups as the odd numbers to study group and even numbers to the control group. Hotpack, ultrasound and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to the patients in the both groups for 3 days a week for 2 months. Besides that, control group is going to perform 40-minute classical exercise program 3 days a week for 2 months. Study group is going to perform dance therapy protocol as indicated below;

• 10 minutes warm-up (stepping),
• 25 minutes of dance (such as; steps, figures using hip and knee flexions, hip circulation, and hip rotations)
• 5 minutes stretching (relaxation) exercises.

Demographic information form is going be filled out patients including information about; age, height (cm), weight (kg), occupation, educational status, bilateral leg length (cm), previous and present diseases, waist/hip ratio, previous surgeries, trunk range of motions, low back pain duration, smoking, falling story. Additionally, following questionnaires are going to be applied to both groups;

• Short Form Mc Gill Pain Questionnaire,
• Oswestry Disability Index,
• Body Awareness Ratio Questionnaire,
• Nottingham Health Profile Questionnaire,
• Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale,
• The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQoL) Scale,
• Y balance test
• Time Up and Go (TUG) test

SPSS version 23 (SPSS Inc, Armonk, NY) program will be used in the analysis of the data. Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon test and student t test will be analyse methods.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria;

• Those who agree to participate in the study voluntarily
• Having low back pain lasting longer than 3 months,
• Having values between 4 and 7 on the Visual Analog Scale.
• Female individuals between the ages of 18-65

Exclusion criteria; Those with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 35 kg/m², pregnant women, those with following problems; neural findings, malignancy, inflammation, arthritis, metabolic bone disease, column vertebralis or lower extremity surgery, cardiovascular system diseases, severe osteoporosis, communication and hearing disorders, and those who illiterate, receive other treatment for low back pain.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Dance therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

This group included in the dance therapy program throughout the study.

Treatment:

Other: Dance Therapy Group

Other: Pyhsiotherapy Modalities

Control group

Experimental group

Description:

This group included in the conventional low back pain exercise program throughout the study.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise Group

Other: Pyhsiotherapy Modalities