Effectiveness of Electrotherapy Techniques to Treat Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02297685
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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)
Objective: The aim of this investigation was compare the effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and interferential currents (IC) on chronic low back pain. Forty-eight patients diagnosed as having chronic low back pain were randomly assigned to three groups: control (sham electrotherapy; age 47 ± 8 years), interferential currents (IC; age 48 ± 8 years) and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS; age 48 ± 8 years). Patients in all groups received 12 × 30-min sessions of the assigned treatment for a period of 4 weeks plus therapeutic exercises. Before and after the treatment, low back pain was measured using a 100-mm visual analogue scale and functional disability level was measured using the Rolland Morris Disability Questionnaire. Participants status was followed up 3 months after the end of the treatment.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Two Electrotherapy Techniques to Treat Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: Sham Transcutaneous nerve stimulation
- Device: Transcutaneous nerve stimulation
- Device: Interferential currents
- Sponsor
- Camilo Jose Cela University
- Collaborators
- Public Health Service of Madrid
- Start date
- 2014-12-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-03-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * The subjects for this study were recruited from a waiting list from patients with acute low back pain. * To be included in the list they had to be older than 18 years and have had unilateral shoulder pain for more than 12 weeks. * Potential participants were then examined by an independent specialist and the diagnosis of LBP was made according to the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire." Exclusion Criteria: * The following participants were excluded from the investigation: individuals presenting trauma, disc disease or lumbosciaticas; individuals who were receiving pain-relieving treatments with another physiotherapy method at the same time; patients with previous surgery or intra-articular injections; individuals with contraindications against electrotherapy and those who declined to participate.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02297685