Functional Exercises for Chronic Low Back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT03376724
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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)
Non-specific low back pain is a common condition. Exercise is effective treatment for chronic low back pain. We hypothesized the functional exercise group will present pain reduction and functional improvement. The purpose of this study is investigated the effectiveness of an functional exercise program for people with nonspecific chronic low back pain. Patients will be randomly divided into 2 groups: control group (minimal intervention - mini back school and analgesic) and group will receive a functional exercise protocol associated with minimal intervention.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of the Functional Exercises in Young Adults Chronic Low Back Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Functional Exercise Protocol
- Other: Minimal
- Sponsor
- Federal University of São Paulo
- Start date
- 2017-11-10
- Primary completion
- 2018-05-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 50 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 50 years * Low back pain for more than 3 months * Low back pain with numeric pain scale between 3 - 8 cm * Understand Portuguese well enough to be able to fill in the questionnaires Exclusion Criteria: * Inflammatory/rheumatological diseases, tumor, infection or vertebral fracture; * 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 * Previous spinal surgery; * Previous spinal infiltration for pain relief in the last 3 months; * Several scoliosis; * Litigation; * Pregnancy; * Fibromyalgia; * People who had changed physical activity or undergone physical therapy in the previous 3 months; * Presence of any contraindication to exercise; * Planned travel in the next 12 weeks; * Geographic inaccessibility.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03376724