Functioning Disturbance in Chronic Back Pain: Altered Muscle Metabolism
Unknown statusNCT01593839
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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 main objective of this study is to investigate the muscle metabolism in individuals with chronic non-specific low back pain (CNSLBP) to enhance our understanding of chronic back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Functioning Disturbance in Chronic Back Pain: Altered Muscle Metabolism
- Conditions
- Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pian
- Sponsor
- Oslo University Hospital
- Collaborators
- The Research Council of Norway
- Start date
- 2012-05
- Primary completion
- 2013-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 30 Years to 50 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Norway
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
The NSCBP group: * At least 6 patients will be included in this study. * All patients referred to Vestfold Hospital Trust, Kysthospitalet, diagnosed with chronic NSCBP \>3 months duration will be invited to participate in the study. The invitation will be in a written form. Exclusion Criteria: * anamnesis of medical or drug abuse, * surgery on the musculoskeletal system of the trunk, * known congenital malformation of the spine or scoliosis, * body mass index \> 27 kg/m2, * systemic-neurological-degenerative disease, * history of stroke, * psychiatric disorder, * pregnancy and abnormal blood pressure. The subjects will be asked not to use any medications except for paracetamol preparations one week before examination and instructed not to perform any back-straining exercise for 48 h prior to the study, except for ordinary daily working and/or leisure activities.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01593839