Evaluation of Dynamic Stability in the Low Back Pain Patient
CompletedNCT02059317
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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 compare on day 0 the maximum Lyapunov exponent (lmax, an indicator of local dynamic stability) of chronic low back pain patients versus that of healthy volunteers matched for age (± 5 years), sex and body mass index (BMI ± 15% of low back pain patients).
Study details
- Official title
- Evaluation of Dynamic Stability in the Low Back Pain Patient
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Flexion-extension in the sagittal plane
- Other: Rotation in a transverse plane
- Other: Complex movement in three dimensions
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
- Start date
- 2015-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-09-28
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- France
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
General inclusion criteria: * The patient/subject must have given his/her informed and signed consent * The patient/subject must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan Inclusion criteria for low back pain patients: * The patient has chronic low back pain lasting for more than 6 months and which is not postoperative in nature General exclusion criteria: * The patient/subject is participating in another study * The patient/subject is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study * The patient/subject is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship * The patient/subject refuses to sign the consent * It is impossible to correctly inform the patient/subject * The patient/subject is pregnant, parturient, or breastfeeding Exclusion criteria for low back pain patients: * The patient has a history of spinal surgery * The patient has a history of preexisting postural disorder related to lumbalgia * The patient has undergone a localized infiltration treatment (e.g. cortisone shots) in the last month * The subject has a balance disorder, blindness, inability to carry out the experimental protocol Exclusion criteria for healthy volunteers: * The subject has a history of acute low back pain \> 15 days or which has resulted in a work stoppage of more than 7 days in the 5 years preceding the study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02059317