Osteopathic Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02983435
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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 relevance of this study is to determine the efficacy of two osteopathic techniques - Thrust Technique and Muscle Energy Technique (MET) - in improving of neuromuscular component of the trunk and clinical symptoms in adult workers with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP). Few studies have investigated and compared the physiological responses of these techniques quantitatively, and no published study has compared their effects in low back pain subjects in terms of symptoms, postural balance and muscle activation. The main outcomes will be computed by electromyography measurement so that to assess the trunk neuromuscular activation pattern as well as by force platform parameters for determining of postural control. Clinical symptoms such as pain intensity, perception of disability and fear and avoidance will also be computed. This is the first study to compare these two osteopathic techniques using the main biological outcomes related to trunk neuromuscular function.
Study details
- Official title
- Comparison Between Two Osteopathic Techniques for Chronic Low Back Pain Treatment: a Randomized Crossover Trial.
- Conditions
- Low Back Pain
- Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment
- Interventions
- Other: G1 - Thrust manipulation
- Other: G2 - Muscle Energy
- Sponsor
- Universidade Norte do Paraná
- Start date
- 2016-12
- Primary completion
- 2017-03
- Sex
- Male
- Age range
- from 35 Years to 55 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: * Chronic low back pain at least for three months. * Low back pain of unknown mechanical origin without irradiation to the lower limbs. * Workers with chronic low back pain at least three months. * Do not be participating in rehabilitation programs. * Do not have practiced regular physical activity in the past 3 months. Exclusion Criteria: * Manual therapy treatment in the past 90 days. * Discal herniation diagnosis. * Lumbar radiculopathy and / or nerve root compression. * Lumbar stenosis. * Lumbar surgery. * Nerve root entrapment. * Neurological and endocrine. * Osteoporosis. * Rheumatoid arthritis. * Spinal osteomyelitis. * Spondylolysis. * Spondylolisthesis. * Tumors. * Vertebral fracture. * No current sports or treatment in Physiotherapy, Pilates Method or Manual Therapy.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02983435