The Effect of Cognitive Functional Therapy on Patients With Non-specific Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02145728
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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 evaluate whether individual cognitive functional therapy (CFT), when compared to group exercise classes is effective in reducing pain and disability in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- The Effect of Cognitive Functional Therapy on Patients With Non-specific Chronic Low Back Pain: a Multi-centre Randomized Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Individual Cognitive Functional Therapy
- Behavioral: Group Exercise Classes
- Sponsor
- University of Limerick
- Collaborators
- Curtin University; KU Leuven; Mayo General Hospital, Ireland; Health Service Executive, Ireland
- Start date
- 2014-05
- Primary completion
- 2016-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Ireland
- Total sites listed
- 3
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged between 18 and 75 * Chronic low back pain greater than 6 months duration * Score greater than 14% for disability on Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) * Independently mobile (with or without aids), to be capable of participating in a rehabilitation programme Exclusion Criteria: * Primary pain area is not the lumbar spine (from T12-buttocks) * Leg pain as the primary problem (nerve root compression or disc prolapse with true radicular pain/radiculopathy, lateral recess/central or spinal stenosis with primary leg pain) * \<6 months post lumbar spine or lower limb or abdominal surgery * Pain relieving procedures such as injection based therapy (e.g epidurals) and day case procedures (e.g rhizotomy) in the last 3 months * Pregnancy * Rheumatologic/inflammatory disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis, lupus, scheuermann's disease) * Progressive neurological disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis (MS), parkinson's disease (PD), motor neuron disease (MND) * Unstable cardiac conditions * Red flag disorders like malignancy/cancer, acute traumas like fracture (\<6 months ago) or infection, spinal cord compression/cauda equina
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02145728