Active clinical trials for "Low Back Pain"

To determine clinically significant improvement in the patients undergoing procedures under fluoroscopy. To evaluate and compare the adverse event profile in both groups

This study explores the experience of physiotherapists and patients using the Pain Navigator Tool during outpatient musculoskeletal consultations.

This study was planned to investigate the relationship between pain perceptions and pain beliefs of individuals in different age groups with chronic low back pain and symptom severity.

This study aims to compare the two groups of low back pain and health adults. To investigate the relationship among lumbar movement control, standing balance and physical activity. Methods used in the study will be clinical tools such as proprioception test, lumbar movement control, timed one-leg- standing balance and Y-balance test according to the Mat.

Patients will be recruited from the Outpatient Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Kestel State Hospital, who have been diagnosed with mechanical LBP for the past 3 weeks (physical examination, neurological examination, spinal radiography and laboratory tests and other causes of LBP were excluded) and who have agreed to participate in the study. Sociodemographic data of patients who gave written informed consent will be recorded to ensure anonymity. Although no consensus has been reached on the cross-cultural adaptation of the questionnaires into different languages, this study will use the guidelines for self-report measurement provided by Beaton et al. Following the formation of the expert committee, the scale will be translated and the pre-form back-translated. Comparisons will be made with the translated versions and the final version of the scale will be created by taking into account the opinions of the preliminary group of participants. The reliability, test-retest reliability, face validity and content validity of the scale will be assessed by the expert committee. In order to assess the concurrent validity of this scale, all participants will also complete the 'Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire' and the 'Quebec Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire', which have been previously validated and reliable in Turkish. The Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire consists of 10 items that assess activities of daily living. These are pain intensity, personal care, lifting, walking, sitting, standing, sleeping, social life, travelling and degree of change in pain. Each item has 6 options ranging from 0 to 5 points (12). The Quebec Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire consists of 20 items assessing activities of daily living. Each item has 6 options ranging from 0-5 points. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability and the Turkish version of the Low Back Activity Confidence Scale (Lobacs).

Lower back pain, especially chronic, is a very complex condition that has different causes. There is no single pathophysiological mechanism that could explain the causes of low back pain. It is defined as non-specific and results in only symptomatic treatment. The mechanisms of pain overlap and combine with genetic, epigenetic, individual factors and lifestyle. On the other hand, when low back pain has a defined cause, the treatment can be causal. At the beginning of the treatment of patients with non-specific low back pain, identification of those that would probably need more complex treatment is tried. More complex patients, are also referred to physiotherapy, and those who are more likely to develop chronic back pain, should be also referred to a psychologist. An important place, to interrupt the back pain cycle has spine blockades, either local, trigger points blockades, or x-ray-guided blockades of facet joints or nerve roots.

The study investigates the impact of abdominoplasty in the post partum population on the symptoms of back pain and urinary incontinence. Patients presenting for abdominoplasty fill out validated questionnaires for both back pain (Oswestry Disability Index) and urinary incontinence (ICIQ-UI short form). They complete the same questionnaires 6 weeks and 6 months post op. The prospectively gathered data gives an insight into the incidence of functional symptoms in this post partum group preop as well as the degree of improvement gained postop. This is a multicenter trial with 9 surgeons submitting patients to the study, which ran for 19 months.

Low back pain (LBP) is a complex and common problem with major societal repercussions. Clinical evaluations, and especially functional assessments, are necessary for proper diagnosis and decisions on the most appropriate treatment. The assessment of lumbar kinematics has been frequently described. For instance, measures of range of motion (ROM), angular velocities and acceleration of the total lumbar spine (TLx) have demonstrated some differences between healthy subjects and LBP patients. However, recent evidence has suggested that models evaluating the TLx are insufficient. In fact, regional differences in kinematics have been described between the upper lumbar spine and the lower lumbar spine. The aim of this study is to evaluate the differences in spinal kinematics between healthy subjects and LBP patients using a multi-segment model of the spine that allows regional analysis.

Chronic low back pain remains a major public health issue. Low back pain is frequently associated with stiffness changes of the lumbar back muscles. The techniques which assess the stiffness of the back muscles are poorly reliable and do not allow the quantification of stiffness changes. Elastography (magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound) can be used to objectively and non-invasively quantify in vivo tissue elasticity. The aim of the investigator's study is to compare the stiffness in the main lumbar back muscles (i.e. the erector spinae and the multifidus) by using magnetic resonance elastography and shear wave elastography.

This study assess ocular movements in a hand laterality judgment task in a population of musculoskeletal disorders. Reaction time, error rate and visual strategy are compared between musculoskeletal disorders and healthy patients, and between the different locations of the disorder.