A Trial Comparing Mechanical Diagnosis and Treatment to Manual Therapy
CompletedNot applicableNCT03049644
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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)
Mechanical diagnosis and treatment (MDT) and Manual Therapy (MT) have both demonstrated efficacy in the management of CLBP. The use of a Point of Care (POC) design in this study will allow for comparison of these two treatment modalities in a clinical setting. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of recruiting, enrolling and collecting outcome data on CLBP patients utilizing the POC methodology.
Study details
- Official title
- Management of Chronic Lower Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Mechanical Diagnosis and Treatment to Manual Therapy Utilizing a Point of Care Methodology
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy
- Procedure: Manual Therapy
- Sponsor
- Canandaigua VA Medical Center
- Start date
- 2017-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 89 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic Lower back pain (CLBP) (\>12 weeks) * Veteran * At least 18 years of age * Directional preference on physical examination Exclusion Criteria: * Non Veteran * \>89 years of age * Non Mechanical Cause of LBP * Unable to identify directional preference on physical examination * Contraindications to manual therapy (cauda equina syndrome, spinal neoplasia or metastatic disease, destructive joint pathology such as rheumatoid arthritis, bowel/bladder dysfunction (associated with the back pain), peripheral neuropathy or progressive lumbosacral radiculopathy, progressive myelopathy or neurogenic claudication or any absolute contraindications to MT such as acute fracture of the lumbar spine) * Open Worker's compensation case
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03049644