Hip Posterolateral Complex Strengthening in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Unknown statusPhase 3NCT02517606
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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)
Chronic nonspecific low back pain is an important health condition with a high prevalence worldwide and it is associated with enormous direct and indirect costs to the society. Clinical practice guidelines show that many interventions are available to treat patients with chronic low back pain, but the vast majority of these interventions have a modest effect in reducing pain and disability. A biomechanical approach that has been raised is that a weakness of the hip abductors, extensors, and lateral rotators musculature (posterolateral complex - PLC) would lead to excessive contralateral pelvic drop during weight-bearing activities such as walking, running, climbing up or downstairs, generating an overload in the lumbar area. Although the strengthening of the hip PLC is largely used in clinical practice for treating patients with hip and knee injuries, there is still a lack of evidence regarding patients with low back pain. Therefore, questions remain about the efficacy of the hip dynamic stabilization as an additional intervention to conventional treatment in a well design trial with statistic power.
Study details
- Official title
- Hip Posterolateral Complex Strengthening in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: a Randomized Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Conventional physical therapy plus HPCS
- Other: Conventional physical therapy
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Bahia
- Collaborators
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia
- Start date
- 2016-08
- Primary completion
- 2019-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 60 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: * • Will be included 70 patients of both sexes, adults with medical diagnosis divided into two groups: Group A consisted of 35 patients use receive conventional physical therapy plus the addition of hip PLC strengthening and group B consisted of 35 patients also only use conventional physical therapy Exclusion Criteria: * Will be excluded from the study patients who have neurological or osteoarticular disease preventing the ambulation of these individuals.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02517606