Effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation for Chronic Low Back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT01269983
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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 is to evaluate the effectiveness of a physiotherapy program for chronic low back pain. We'll randomize more about 35 patients in two groups. Both groups will receive an 8 physioterapy intervention in 4 weeks, in particular the first group (study) will receive 4 Fascial Manipulation treatment combined with 4 session of a standard approach (mobilization and stretching exercises); whereas the second (control) will receive only the standard approach.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation for Chronic Low Back Pain. A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Fascial Manipulation
- Sponsor
- University of Bologna
- Start date
- 2009-04
- Primary completion
- 2009-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 60 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Italy
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * patients with a chronic low back pain (more than 7 weeks) * age between 20 to 60 years old Exclusion Criteria: * presence of neurological red flags * continuative assumption of drugs for low back pain * no positive imaging for spine lesions (fractures, spondilolistesi, * vascular desease (aneurism abdominal aorta) * secondary lesions (oncological desease) * rheumatic systemic desease * any other neurological desease which could compromise the partecipation to the program exercise
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01269983