Active clinical trials for "Low Back Pain"

This study is a randomized controlled trial designed to compare the effects of 4 weeks of chiropractic care to a waitlist control group on measures of strength, balance, and endurance in military personnel experiencing non-surgical low back pain.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of ASP7962 relative to placebo. This study will also evaluate the efficacy of ASP7962 relative to placebo on pain on walking, function and stiffness; the time course of efficacy of ASP7962 relative to placebo; the improvement in overall patient status of ASP7962 relative to placebo as well as the safety and tolerability of ASP7962 relative to placebo.

The relevance of this study is to determine the efficacy of two osteopathic techniques - Thrust Technique and Muscle Energy Technique (MET) - in improving of neuromuscular component of the trunk and clinical symptoms in adult workers with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP). Few studies have investigated and compared the physiological responses of these techniques quantitatively, and no published study has compared their effects in low back pain subjects in terms of symptoms, postural balance and muscle activation. The main outcomes will be computed by electromyography measurement so that to assess the trunk neuromuscular activation pattern as well as by force platform parameters for determining of postural control. Clinical symptoms such as pain intensity, perception of disability and fear and avoidance will also be computed. This is the first study to compare these two osteopathic techniques using the main biological outcomes related to trunk neuromuscular function.

The Purpose of this trial is to investigate the efficacy and safety of Sogyeonghwalhyeol-tang(SGHH) on Korean Patients With Work Related Chronic Low Back Pain

The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of a combination of separate therapies of Biofreeze® and TheraBand Kinesiology Tape to advice on acute pain, disability and fear avoidance among low back patients over a 1-week period of time.

A three-month, randomized, controlled study will be used to examine the effects of a home-based resistance exercise program on improving pain severity and functional ability in unilateral lower extremity amputees who suffer from Low Back Pain. The study will follow the principles of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials for randomized, two group, parallel studies.

Exploration of treatment processes during exposure and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the context of chronic low back pain in a multiple baseline single-case design.

The main objective of the current proposal is to investigate the clinical and physiological changes triggered by massage therapy in a group of individuals with chronic low back pain experiencing muscular fatigue. The investigators believe these objectives are in line with the "2014 Massage Therapy Research Fund research priorities", since the results produced by these investigations will generate knowledge with regard to the short term clinical efficacy of massage therapy and will provide critical information related to the physiological mechanisms underlying massage therapy clinical effects. Most importantly, the combined assessment of clinical and physiological outcomes will also yield key information to identify specific biological components of the massage therapy intervention. Determining the presence of a biological mechanism is, as for any treatment, considered one of the necessary criteria to declare a causal relationship between a specific intervention and its associated clinical effects. The investigators strongly believe that the proposed research will contribute to the identification of specific mechanisms that will complement the emerging clinical evidence supporting massage therapy in the treatment of chronic low back pain. The proposed research project will involve researchers and future practitioners of massage therapy. In conjunction with a high quality research environment, it is the goal of the investigators to create an educational environment for undergraduate and graduate students that will foster interdisciplinary collaboration in order to ensure a diversified; high quality training of young researchers and clinician scientists working in the field of manual therapies.

Low back pain and sciatica is a common condition resulting in high costs and disability for society and affected individuals. Presently there is a lack of evidence for what treatments may help this condition early in the course of care. Improved early management could reduce risks for persistent disability and high costs. The goal of this project is to examine the clinical outcomes and costs associated with adding a physical therapy program to early management of patients with low back pain and sciatica within primary care.

This study is a double-blind randomized clinical trial with two arms which aims to study the effects of diaphragmatic treatment in patients with nonspecific low back pain. Low back pain has a great importance in today's society, and it is therefore important to develop an effective treatment for this condition. People with chronic nonspecific low back pain, can present respiratory disorders and get anxiety states, affecting mainly the diaphragm muscle. Therefore, given its direct anatomic relationship, the diaphragm may be part of the development of chronic low back pain. Although clinical practice guidelines for chronic low back pain have been developed, it hasn't been explored before a physiotherapy treatment especially aimed at a diaphragmatic treatment. A double-blind randomized clinical trial with two arms will be used for this purpose, 64 patients with nonspecific low back pain referred from different hospitals of Castellón will be randomized into two groups: Diaphragmatic intervention with osteopathic manual therapy treatment (D). Diaphragmatic intervention with placebo treatment group (P). An osteopathic manual therapy protocol for the treatment of back pain including techniques for the diaphragm muscle will be applied to the patients in group D, in a total of 5 sessions. For patients in group P, the same protocol will be performed on the diaphragm but with placebo treatment techniques. The study focuses on the analysis of the following variables: scores on the questionnaires: Pain: McGill Pain Questionnaire and VAS (Visual Analogical Scale ). Fear Avoidance: (FABQ) Disability: Oswestry Disability Index and Roland-Morris Anxiety: HADS: (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) Catastropizing: PCS (Pain Catastropizing Scale) Satisfaction with treatment (Escala de Satisfacción con el tratamiento) The results of these pre-intervention and post-intervention variables will be compared between the two groups in the first session, in the fourth session and in the first and third month after the first intervention. The VAS score will also be assessed in the second and third session.