Virtual Reality Based Physical Therapy for Patients With Lower Back Pain

University of Lahore

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain

Treatments: Other: Virtual reality Exercises; Other: Routine Physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05859321

IRB-UOL-FAHS/696-IV/2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare chronic low back patients. The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

• pain and disability
• fear avoidance belief Participants will perform virtual reality exercises
• virtual reality based exercises
• Routine Physical Therapy To Compare routine physical therapy treatment in addition to virtual reality to see effects on pain, functional disability and fear avoidance belief

Enrollment: 84 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Low back pain that persists for more than 12 weeks
• Non-radiating low back pain
• Mechanical low back pain
• Both Gender

Exclusion criteria

• trauma or fracture of the spine
• any cardiac disease
• any systematic disease
• history of any neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, stroke and epilepsy
• patient on corticosteroid or anticoagulants
• history of any Drug abuse
• any Congenital deformity
• Virtual reality games phobia
• Pregnant female

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

virtual reality

Experimental group

Description:

virtual reality exercises will be administered along with routine physiotherapy

Treatment:

Other: Virtual reality Exercises

Routine Physiotherapy (treatment as usual)

Active Comparator group

Description:

transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation,Heat Therapy, Stretching and strengthening exercises with Cycling will be administered

Treatment:

Other: Routine Physiotherapy