Myofascial Massage in the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02646280
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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 the study is to determine the effectiveness of an approach that combines massage therapy with elements of neurocognitive rehabilitation such as motor imagery and the words of the physiotherapist compared to a traditional massage therapy in reducing pain in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and to evaluate if and how the pain reduction is linked to the interoceptive awareness and which is the patient's ability to relax through the measurement of the hearth rate variability (HRV).
Study details
- Official title
- The Myofascial Massage in the Treatment of Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: the Experience of Contact
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Massage therapy
- Other: Neurocognitive rehabilitation
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
- Start date
- 2015-07
- Primary completion
- 2015-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 50 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Italy
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Presence of chronic nonspecific low back pain for at least three months * Subjects aged between 18 and 50 years Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of acute low back pain * Low back pain due to other causes (vertebral fractures, spondylolisthesis, herniated discs, lumbar canal stenosis) * Disorders of central and/or peripheral nervous system * Systemic inflammatory disease (eg rheumatoid arthritis) * Systemic infectious disease * Neoplastic disease * Previous Surgery * Cognitive impairment * Pregnancy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02646280