Efficacy of a Classification Based 'Cognitive Functional Therapy' in Nurses With Non Specific Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01882686
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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)
A series of case-studies to explore the efficacy of classification based cognitive functional physiotherapy according to the classification system proposed by Peter O'Sullivan in specific nursing population with non specific chronic low back pain. The investigators hypothesis was that treatment targeting the mechanisms behind the problem from a multidimensional perspective would be effective to reduce pain, disability and sick-leave.
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy of a Classification Based 'Cognitive Functional Therapy' in Nurses With Non Specific Chronic Low Back Pain - a Series of Case-controls
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Classification Based Cognitive Functional Therapy
- Sponsor
- KU Leuven
- Collaborators
- European Social Fund
- Start date
- 2012-12
- Primary completion
- 2014-05
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Belgium
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Low Back Pain (LBP) with/without referred pain in buttock/thigh for \> 3 months, including the four weeks prior to testing * LBP is primarily localised from T12 to gluteal folds * mechanical provocation of LBP with postures, movement and activities * average pain intensity in the past week Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) \>/= 1/10 * Disability (ODI) \>/=2% * willingness to sign the informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * specific spinal pathology * presence of red flags * previous lumbar spinal surgery * pregnancy * diagnosed psychiatric disorder - somatisation * radicular pain with positive neural tissue provocation test * widespread non-specific pain disorder (no primary LBP focus) * specific diagnoses: active rheumatologic disease, progressive neurological disease, serious cardiac or other internal medical condition, malignant basic diseases, acute traumas, infections, or acute vascular catastrophes
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01882686