Cognitive Functional Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03221439
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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)
There is evidence, of a single randomized controlled trial, that CFT is better than combined manual therapy and motor control exercise for chronic low back pain. However, this study had significant methodological shortcomings regarding the failure to carry out the intention to treat analysis and a considerable loss of follow-up of patients. It is important to replicate this study through a randomized clinical trial with similar objectives in another domain, but correcting these methodological shortcomings. Therefore, the aim of the study is to assess the efficacy of Cognitive Functional Therapy in patients with chronic non specific low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT) Compared With a Combined Manual Therapy and Motor Control Exercise in Patients With Non-specific Chronic Low Back Pain: a Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Low Back Pain
- Back Pain
- Pain
- Signs and Symptoms
- Neuromuscular Manifestations
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Cognitive Functional Therapy
- Other: Manual Therapy and Motor Control Exercise
- Sponsor
- Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
- Collaborators
- Rio de Janeiro State Research Supporting Foundation (FAPERJ)
- Start date
- 2017-08-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-01-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 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: * Aged between 18 and 65 years * Low back pain for more than 3 months * Disability score of 14% or more on the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) * Being able to walk independently with or without support * Understand Portuguese well enough to be able to fill in the questionnaires Exclusion Criteria: * Main pain area is not the lumbar spine (from T12 to buttocks) * Main pain as leg pain (eg: nerve root compression or herniated disc with radicular pain / radiculopathy, lateral and central stenosis) * Less than 6 months after lumbar spine, lower limb or abdomen surgery * Invasive procedures for pain relief (ex: epidural injection, rhizotomy) in the last 3 months * Pregnancy * Inflammatory/rheumatological diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Scheuermann's disease)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03221439