Active clinical trials for "Back Pain"

Aim of the study is to analyze systematically by using surface EMG the effect of the dynamic flexion orthosis Dynaflex® and the back bandage Lumbo Sensa® on the voluntary activation of the low back muscles and thereby on the muscles' stiffness. Patients have to pass a course with 6 different exercises in which they have to carry out certain activities of daily life under controlled conditions to examine, if the particular technical aid has a positive impact on pain-related activation of the back muscles.

Chronic nonspecific low back pain is an important health condition with a high prevalence worldwide and it is associated with enormous direct and indirect costs to the society. Clinical practice guidelines show that many interventions are available to treat patients with chronic low back pain, but the vast majority of these interventions have a modest effect in reducing pain and disability. A biomechanical approach that has been raised is that a weakness of the hip abductors, extensors, and lateral rotators musculature (posterolateral complex - PLC) would lead to excessive contralateral pelvic drop during weight-bearing activities such as walking, running, climbing up or downstairs, generating an overload in the lumbar area. Although the strengthening of the hip PLC is largely used in clinical practice for treating patients with hip and knee injuries, there is still a lack of evidence regarding patients with low back pain. Therefore, questions remain about the efficacy of the hip dynamic stabilization as an additional intervention to conventional treatment in a well design trial with statistic power.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect on QoL, PI and the AROM° in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain. This after following an episode of 6 weeks 2 times a week physiotherapeutic back rehabilitation according to the 4 times T method by orthopaedic disorder ® (4MTOR®). The results in this research will be analyzed and reported. In this study, 7 dependent variables will be independently examined relative to 2 independent variables.

Objectives: The primary objective will be to investigate the additional effect (immediate and after one-month follow up) of pain neuroscience education (PNE) to Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT) on primary outcomes of pain intensity and disability in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain (CLBP).

Enso is a portable device for the treatment of chronic and acute types of musculoskeletal pain. This study is being designed as a double-blinded, sham-controlled randomized clinical trial.

Pain control for acute isolated back pain and sciatica is a nebulous and often illusive task in the emergency department, and a challenge face everyday by emergency medicine physicians. Standard pain control practices are poorly defined in practice and in the literature. NSAIDs alone have been shown to be less-than-adequate controllers of acute back pain warranting emergency department visits and have little bearing on long-term pain control or recovery. Opioids are additionally poor long-term pain controllers and are gaining public controversy for their overuse. Modalities such as acupuncture, massage, thermotherapy, and spinal manipulation have been described in the literature with minimal evidence. Aromatherapy for pain control has been recently demonstrated as effective in the management of burn-dressing changes as well as post-operative pain management in children. It is an inexpensive and easily employed modality not yet explored in the emergency department for acute pain such as isolated back pain and sciatica. The authors propose to study Rosa damascena oil aromatherapy for the control of isolated acute back pain in the emergency department compared to almond oil placebo. The authors hypothesize that Rosa damascena will provide additional pain relief, as a known analgesic, when compared to almond oil aromatherapy. The authors will identify patients presenting to the Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) Emergency Department (ED) with acute isolated back pain and sciatica and test this hypothesis using a blind randomized approach. Patients included will be those above the age of 18 with isolated, non-traumatic back pain and sciatica lasting less than 2 weeks. Primary outcomes measured will include decrease in pain severity on a visual analog scale after 30 minutes of aromatherapy and again at 60 minutes post-therapy. Secondary outcomes measured will include patient satisfaction, need for clinician-determined rescue medications, and minimal clinical importance difference of pain control. Aromatherapy will be provided with both essential oil concentrated Rosa damascena and almond extract delivered via soaked-cotton ball 20-30 cm from the patient's face.

Mechanical low back pain is one most important emergency department presentations of patients seeking pain relief. Although parenteral pain killers such as opioids, non-steroidal anti-inflamatuar drugs and paracetamol are used commonly in these patients, application of analgesics in gel forms might be an reasonable alternative to these drugs with fewer adverse effects.

Musculoskeletal disorders and degeneration represent injuries or pain in the body's joint ligaments, tendons, muscles, nerves, and skeletal elements that support extremities, spine and related tissues. Direct injuries and aging contribute to breakdown and inflammation of these tissues, leading to debilitation and loss of function in these areas. This has major impact on quality of life, occupational/recreation limitations, and psychosocial implications. Many therapies have been employed including medications, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and a variety of surgical interventions each of which have distinct limitations, often covering the issues versus providing actual healing and return to function. Many reports are now available utilizing self-healing options which include use of stem/stromal cellular therapy or biocellular treatments (either from adipose or marrow) using targeted placement of cells, matrix and platelet concentrates. Termed cellular or Biocellular therapy (typically optimized using ultrasound guidance). It is proposed that use of cellular isolates or cell-stroma derived from the largest deposit of these cells (adipose greater than marrow), may use in conjunction with targeted placement or as a stand alone methodology intravascular use. This study is designed as a interventional means to examine the safety and efficacy of the use of cellular and tissue stromal vascular fraction in musculoskeletal pain, dysfunction degeneration or inflammatory disorders.

The aim of this study is to investigate if six-weeks of exercise intervention, 3 times per week on the Functional Re-adaptive Exercise Device (FRED) reduces non-specific mechanical low back pain in adults ages 18-60.

In this prospective observational trial the effect of the Endoscopic rhizotomy microinvasive therapy should be examined in (approximately 150) adult patients with low back pain positive for facet joint pain component.