The Role of Osteopathic Treatment in the Axial Variations of the Lumbar Spine: RCT

European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Sham Therapy; Other: No Intervention; Other: Osteopathic manipulative treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02123693

DYNOST-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present study is to determine whether there is a relationship between osteopathic treatment and the change of physiological axes of the lumbar spine, through the use of Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• will be admitted patients of both genders
• patients with chronic low back pain at baseline
• patients aged between 18 and 35 years

Exclusion criteria

• patients diagnosed with the disease of the musculoskeletal system or congenital malformation of the column
• patients with disorders of the pelvic floor, or who have undergone surgery of the reproductive system
• patients with neurological disorders that can cause painful symptoms of lumbar segment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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30 participants in 3 patient groups

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

5 sessions of treatment will be carried out: the first 3 weekly, and the remaining 2 after 15 days. The type of treatment will be based on indirect techniques

Treatment:

Other: Osteopathic manipulative treatment

Sham therapy

Sham Comparator group

Description:

5 sessions of treatment will be carried out: the first 3 weekly, and the remaining 2 after 15 days. The type of treatment will be based on specific parameters set out previously based on a predetermined protocol

Treatment:

Other: Sham Therapy

No intervention

Other group

Description:

Patients in this group will not receive any type of intervention, both therapeutic than fictitious, and will not be evaluated by any operator

Treatment:

Other: No Intervention