Active clinical trials for "Low Back Pain"

Lower back pain (LBP) during pregnancy is a frequent syndrome: it concerns two thirds of pregnant women. This complaint isn't routinely searched for and therefore underdiagnosed. Furthermore, few solutions are given to these women in order to reduce their pain, and indirectly to improve everyday life. What's more, LBP is the cause of many work interruptions. Physical exercise during pregnancy is recommended by the National College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians for low risk pregnancies. Several techniques have proven to be efficient. The main objective of our study is to assess the benefit of regular practice of standardised Stretching Postural® postures in patients presenting "de novo" lower back pain during pregnancy. The Stretching Postural® technique comprises of static postures involving muscular contractions and stretches. This allows the strengthening of the postural muscles, including the paravertebral muscles. After a short learning period, postures can be done autonomously by the patients. The postures are adaptable to each and everyone's morphology and physical limitations. Our study is an open, prospective, randomised monocentric superiority trial in parallel branches involving major patients during low risk pregnancies. These women suffer from "de novo" lower back pain during the second and third trimesters of their pregnancies. Each patient will be randomly assigned to one of the following 2 groups: Stretching Postural® group (group A): usual prevention methods (ergonomic education) and Stretching Postural® postures. "Control" group (group B): usual prevention methods only. Patients presenting "de novo" LBP are included in the study after a routine consult then randomly separated into two groups. During the initial consult, the physician assesses inclusion and judgement criteria, collects informed consent from the patients and teaches them the usual prevention methods as well as, concerning group A, Stretching Postural® postures. Computerized support agendas are given in order to improve observance. Patients are evaluated at day 0 (initial evaluation), after 4 weeks (intermediate) and after 8 weeks (final), according to the main judgment criterion, as well as on secondary pain criteria by the Concise Pain Questionnaire, on their quality of life, the rate of work interruptions and their satisfaction rate. Neonatal outcome is collected at birth. Intermediate phone interviews will allow psychological support and improve observance. Inclusion is scheduled to last 22 months; each subject will be followed during a period of 2 months. The total duration of the study is 2 years. Expected results are a decrease in back pain and an improvement of the quality of life in group A. Decrease in pain scale, equivalent to overall pain during the last week between the two groups will be our main judgment criterion. In order to detect a difference of 1.5 pain scale points (on a scale from 1 to 10) with an alpha risk of 5%, 80% magnitude and a standard deviation of 2, 56 subjects are necessary; 28 in each group. Perspectives: This study will allow for a better diagnosis of lower back pain during pregnancy, and, consequently, for the implementation of routine means of care such as collective or private lessons in Stretching Postural® and the supply of personalised prevention documents.

Back pain is often accompanied by changes in function. The performance of individuals with their backs on their wills may become more functional. It is believed that the test will present good to excellent reliability in individuals with chronic back pain. From this, it can be used in the clinic to verify the functional capacity of these individuals.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Management, Chronic Pain section, recommended Phenol neurolysis when other techniques have failed to provide adequate pain control. In this study we sought to Compare the pain relieve on a Lower Back and Limbs obtained from Methylprednisolone and Phenol 8% Treatment given by Trans Sacral Approach. The study includes patients who suffers from a chronic low back and/or limbs pain which were referred to be given epidural as a treatment. Control group receives 80 mg Methylprednisolone while the test group receives phenol 8%.

The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in posture, flexibility, muscle strength, functional capacity, heart rate(HR), peripheral oxygen saturation, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and intensity of pain in chronic low back pain underwent to Isostretching and GPR.

The investigators propose such a trial to compare a Musculoskeletal and Obstetric Management (MOM) program to standard obstetric care alone for lower back pain/pelvic pain (LBP/PP) during and after pregnancy.

Opiates such as morphine are the cornerstone medications for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. Recent evidence suggests that pain patients on chronic opioid therapy become more sensitive to pain (hyperalgesia) over time. There is also a long-standing notion that analgesic tolerance to opioids (habituation) develops during chronic use even though this phenomenon has never been prospectively studied. Our specific aims propose to prospectively test the hypotheses that; 1) Pain patients on chronic opioid therapy develop dose-dependent tolerance and/or hyperalgesia to these medications over time, 2) Opioid-induced tolerance and hyperalgesia develop differently with respect to various types of pain, 3) Opioid-induced hyperalgesia occurs independently of withdrawal phenomena, and 4) Opioid-induced tolerance and hyperalgesia develop differently based on gender and/or ethnicity. This proposed study will be the first quantitative and prospective study of tolerance and hyperalgesia in pain patients and will have important implications for the rational use of opioids in the treatment of chronic pain.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the reduction of pain by wearing the ATLAS Medical Device in standardized daily activities for patients with Chronic Low Back Pain. This is an intervention al non blinded study with a crossover design comparing pain evaluated with an Analogue Visual Scale with and without the ATLAS device during 5 standardized daily activities.

Introduction: Low back pain is a frequent and universally distributed symptom that affects people of any age and both sexes. Approximately 80% of the population will present it at some point in their life. Acute low back pain lasts less than 4 weeks, subacute 4 to 12 weeks and chronic more than 12 weeks. Hypothesis: Treatment with an exercise program combined with the usual treatment decreases the recurrence of acute low back pain, as well as improvements in pain, functionality, and quality of life of patients. Principal Objective To evaluate the decrease of recurrence of low back pain in the medium-long term of the patients who perform an exercise program compared to those who do not, with both groups receiving the same pharmacological treatment and information of the postural hygiene guidelines endorsed by the current scientific societies. Methods: Patients between 18 and 65 years of age who come to the emergency room with acute low back pain and who meet the eligibility criteria proposed for this study. At the first visit, patients in a control group and intervention group will be randomized. Pharmacological treatment and postural hygiene guidelines will be indicated for both groups, adding the exercise table to the intervention group. The variables chosen are the questionnaires Oswestry for functionality, Goldberg, EuroQol-5D for the quality of life, and VAS for pain; which will be measured in the first consultation, at one month, at three and at six months.

Introduction: An inappropriate posture in children for a while kept playing some instrument of the group of the rubbed string, can cause pain and alterations of the spine, as it continues to consolidate. Objective: To study the benefits acquired during the application of the Pilates Method combined with therapeutic exercise against the Therapeutic Exercise to reduce alterations of the vertebral rachis in children from 10 to 14 years old who play instruments of rubbed strings.

A Pressure Release Technique will be test in patient with low back pain compared to a sham