The Effects of Different Exercise Approaches in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain

Treatments: Other: Spinal stabilization exercise program; Other: Aerobic walking program; Other: Yoga exercise program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04000685

KA-19029

Details and patient eligibility

About

Identification of the effects of yoga, stabilization exercise and aerobic exercise approaches on physical and cognitive variables in individuals with low back pain.

Full description

Patients participating in the study were divided three parallel groups. The patients in the stabilization exercise group were instructed to perform spinal stabilization exercises, the patients in the yoga group were instructed to perform yoga program consisting of breathing, relaxation and flexibility exercises. The patients in the aerobic exercise group were instructed to perform aerobic walking training. The severity of the pain evaluated through visual analog scale, functional status and quality of life, alexithymia, kinesiophobia, catastrophic pain, back awareness, cognitive function evaluated through Oswestry Disability Index(ODI), Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire, Pain Catastrophizing Scale, Fremantle Back Awareness Scale, Montreal Cognitive Assessment respectively. Assessments were repeated before and after the treatment.

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Non-specific low back pain
• Must be pain at least 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• History of any lumbar spine surgery
• Presence of neurological deficit
• Having been diagnosed with cardiovascular or systemic diseases that would prevent him / her from taking exercise training.
• The presence of persistent severe pain
• Pain below the knee
• Severe/progressive scoliosis
• Spinal stenosis
• Spondylolisthesis
• Cancer
• Diabetes
• Metabolic syndrome
• Inflammatory, infectious or tumoral disease of the vertebra

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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81 participants in 3 patient groups

Yoga exercise group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Yoga program were applied all patients in this group accompanied by physiotherapist. Sessions included selected breathing, warm up and relaxation exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Yoga exercise program

Spinal stabilization exercise group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Spinal stabilization exercise with three different progressive phases were applied all patients in this group accompanied by physiotherapist.

Treatment:

Other: Spinal stabilization exercise program

aerobic walking exercise group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Aerobic walking exercise program applied all patients in this group accompanied by physiotherapist.

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic walking program