Use of Biofeedback Training to Correct Abnormal Neuromechanical Pattern in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Low Back Pain

Mechanical Low Back Pain

Treatments

Other: Biofeedback

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02239289

FIR UQTR 2013-2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the benefit of biofeedback training on the capacity of chronic low back pain patients to decrease their lumbar paraspinal muscles activity during trunk full flexion and its relationship with changes in clinical outcomes. To do so, twenty patients with nonspecific mechanical low back pain will be recruited and all participants will take part in four sessions of supervised biofeedback training, consisting of 5 blocks with at least 12 trunk flexion-extension tasks. It is hypothesized that participants will have improved neuromechanical parameters with the biofeedback training and that this improvement will be positively associated to changes in clinical outcomes. This study will also allow for generation of preliminary data, in order to plan for a larger randomized control trial.

Enrollment

21 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Being between 18 and 60 years of age.
Presence of non-specific chronic low back pain.

Exclusion criteria

Prior surgery or major spine trauma.
Lumbar scoliosis greater than 20°.
Neuromuscular disease.
Malignant tumor.
Uncontrolled hypertension.
Infection.
Neurological deficit.
Symptomatic lumbar disc herniation.
Pregnancy.
Recent lumbar cortisone injection.
Active lower body injury and/or disabling pain limiting the capacity to complete the experimentation.
Being under medications known to impair physical effort and pain perception.