Pulse Ultrasound and Kneading Massage in Non- Specific Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03329482
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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)
Back pain is one of humanity most frequent complains. About nine of ten adults experience back pain at some points in their life and five out of ten working adults have back pain every year. When continued for long period it may constitute a disability which tries the patient of the most stoical individual as well as the doctor called to bring relief to the suffering victim. Kneading massage with topical analgesic is a common practice by physiotherapist especially in Nigeria in the management of low back pain, work has been done to know the efficacy of lofnac gel (topical analgesic) via phonophoresis in the management of low back pain(ojoawo,2015), but the comparison of the efficacy of kneading massage and phonophoresis in the management of low back pain has not been well documented. The purpose of this study therefore, is to compare the efficacy of kneading massage and phonophoresis using lofnac gel in the treatment of non-specific chronic low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Effect of Pulse Ultrasound and Kneading Massage Using Lofnac -Gel in the Management of NSCLBP
- Conditions
- Non Specific Low Back Pain
- Interventions
- Other: PULSE ULTRASOUND
- Other: KNEADING MASSAGE
- Sponsor
- Obafemi Awolowo University
- Start date
- 2016-08-12
- Primary completion
- 2017-04-15
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 40 Years to 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Nigeria
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with mechanical low back pain who have had pain for more than three months were eligible for the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with nerve roots symptoms, underlying systemic or viscera disease and specific condition such as neoplasm, fracture, ankylosing spondylolytis, previous low back surgery and pregnancy were excluded
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03329482