Study Comparing Cortical Function and Dysfunction Tests in Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT00924495
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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 explore the cortical regulation of the paraspinal muscles in chronic low back pain. These (possible) changes in regulatory mechanisms are being compared to other motor control tests in order to determine whether correlations are found. Furthermore the patients are being treated with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and tested afterwards. The purpose is to find out if rTMS-therapy is capable of normalizing motor control deficits.
Study details
- Official title
- Regulatory Central Mechanisms in Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain With Lumbar Dysfunction
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Kuopio University Hospital
- Start date
- 2009-06
- Primary completion
- 2012-09
- Sex
- Male
- Age range
- from 25 Years to 50 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Finland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * chronic nonspecific low back pain for at least six months * male gender * age 25-50 yrs * average pain during last week 4-8/10 by VAS * Oswestry disability index 20-80 % Exclusion Criteria: * former spinal operations * rheumatic disease, marked spondylolysis and -olisthesis, other diseases that markedly reduce physical or psychological performance, history of epilepsy, history of taking epileptic or strong opioid drugs
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00924495