Spinal Kinematics in Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNCT03499613
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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)
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most frequent causes for limitations in daily, leisure and work-related activities. Although alterations in spinal motor behavior were consistently reported in CLBP patients, it remains unclear how improvements in spinal motor behavior through rehabilitation treatment affect pain and disability. Psychological factors, such as pain-related fear, were suggested as a possible main cause of spinal motor behavior in CLBP and better understanding their relationships with kinematic and muscle activity alterations is required to enhance care, particularly physiotherapy. Therefore, this study will test CLBP patients before and after a 3 week rehabilitation program to test the hypotheses that: 1) improvements in spinal motor behavior (kinematics and trunk muscle activity) are associated with decreased pain and disability; 2) decrease in pain-related fear is associated with spinal motor behavior improvements.
Study details
- Official title
- Spinal Kinematics in Chronic Low Back Pain: a Cohort Study
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Multidisciplinary rehabilitation program
- Sponsor
- Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud
- Collaborators
- University of Lausanne Hospitals; University of Lausanne
- Start date
- 2018-04-13
- Primary completion
- 2020-10-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * non-specific low back pain (pain from lower ribs to gluteal folds) for more than 3 months * sufficient French level to understand the instructions for the tests, the information sheet, the consent form and the questionnaires * both male and female adults will be included * age more than 18 years old. Exclusion Criteria: * pregnancy * skin allergy to tape * body mass index (BMI) above 32 * any sign of specific low back pain such as the presence of infection, rheumatologic or neurological diseases, spinal fractures, any known important spinal deformities, previous back surgery that limits spinal mobility, tumours * high level of pain at the time of experiment that prevents repeated movements (severity and irritability) * other concomitant pain or condition that could compromise the evaluation of spinal kinematics.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03499613