Additional Effect of Pain Neuroscience Education to Spinal Manipulative Therapy in Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03356886
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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)
Objectives: The primary objective will be to investigate the additional effect (immediate and after one-month follow up) of pain neuroscience education (PNE) to Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT) on primary outcomes of pain intensity and disability in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain (CLBP).
Study details
- Official title
- Additional Effect of Pain Neuroscience Education to Spinal Manipulative Therapy on Pain And Disability in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Spinal Manipulative Technique
- Behavioral: Pain Neuroscience Education
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
- Start date
- 2017-11-30
- Primary completion
- 2020-07-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 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: 1. who present chronic, non-specific, continuous and recurrent low back pain lasting at least three months and 2. contemplate at least three of the following criteria: 1-hip internal rotation with\> 35 °; 2-lumbar spine hypomobility; 3-absence of distal knee symptoms and 4-point FABQ Work score 19. Exclusion Criteria: 1. pregnant women; 2. red flags (neoplasia, vertebral column fracture, vertebral osteomyelitis, infection or equine tail syndrome, rheumatic diseases, diseases that compromise cognition); 3. disc herniation; 4. women in the luteal phase will be rescheduled; 5. patients with cognitive deficits evaluated according to the Mini Mental State Examination with score less than or equal to 24 points or 22 points (low education level) and 6. previous physical therapy for low back in the past year or submitted to any health/pain education strategy. Patients will be instructed to not use pain relief medications during the intervention period of this trial and if any medication be used, participants will be encouraged to report.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03356886