Chiropractic Management of Chronic Lower Back Pain in Older Adults
CompletedNot applicableNCT00475787
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of Chiropractic management for treatment of chronic lower back pain in older adults.
Study details
- Official title
- Chiropractic Management of Chronic Lower Back Pain in Older Adults
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Spinal Manipulation
- Procedure: Detuned Ultrasound
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Organization
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Start date
- 2008-04
- Primary completion
- 2011-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 65 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Pain greater than three months in duration 2. Localized pain to the lumbosacral and gluteal regions and no focal radicular symptoms 3. Pain elicited upon deep palpation of the lumbar erector spinae musculature 4) Pain that can be either exacerbated or relieved by varying body position Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients will be excluded if they have a history of fragility fracture of radiographic evidence of lumbar compression fracture 2. Patient will be excluded if they have undergone a course of previous chiropractic care 3. Severely demented patients, as indicated by their previous medical history and Mini Mental State scores of 22 or less, will not be selected. * The exclusion criteria are representative of the absolute contraindications for chiropractic management, specifically to mean high velocity, low amplitude spinal manipulation.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00475787