A Pilot Study of Motor Control Exercise and Patient Education for the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain in Rural Nigerian Community.
CompletedNot applicableNCT03398174
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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)
The main purpose of this pilot single-blind randomized clinical trial is to assess the feasibility of implementing motor control exercise and patient education for the management of chronic low back pain (CLBP) in a low resource rural Nigerian community.
Study details
- Official title
- Motor Control Exercise and Patient Education for the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain in a Low-Resource Rural Nigerian Community: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Motor Control Exercise
- Behavioral: Patient Education
- Sponsor
- Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
- Start date
- 2018-01-20
- Primary completion
- 2018-04-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- 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: * Male and female between 18 and 65 years old. * Primary complaint of LBP experienced at least over the previous 3-month duration. * Ability to read/understand English or Hausa language. Exclusion Criteria: * Previous history of thoracic spine or lumbosacral spine surgery. * Any neurological findings indicating radiculopathy. * Evidence of serious spine pathology (e.g. tumor, infection, fracture, spinal stenosis, inflammatory disease). * Unstable or severe disabling chronic cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. * History of serious psychological or psychiatric illness. * Current pregnancy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03398174