Movement System Impairment Based Classification Versus General Exercise for Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: a Randomised Controlled Trial
CompletedNot applicableNCT02221609
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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 objective of this study is to investigate the efficacy of a treatment based on Movement System Impairment based classification (MSI) model in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Movement System Impairment Based Classification Versus General Exercise for Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: a Randomised Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Treatment based on Movement System Impairment model
- Other: General exercise
- Sponsor
- Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo
- Collaborators
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
- Start date
- 2014-10
- Primary completion
- 2016-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Subjects of both genders between 18 and 65 years of age with chronic non-specific LBP (pain for more than 3 months) with a pain intensity of at least 3 points measured by a 0-10 points pain numerical rating scale * Subjects must be able to stand and walk independently * Subjects must be able to read in Portuguese Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects with any contraindication to physical exercise according to the guidelines of the American College of Sports Medicine * Subjects with severe depression (measured by depression, anxiety and stress scale - DASS) * Subjects with serious spinal pathologies (fractures, tumors, and inflammatory pathologies such as ankylosing spondylitis), nerve root compromise (disc herniation and spondylolisthesis with neurological compromise, spinal stenosis, and others), serious cardiorespiratory diseases, previous back surgery or pregnancy. * Subjects that cannot be classified into any of the five categories of the Movement System Impairment model upon initial assessment
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02221609