Relationship Between Pressure Pain Threshold and Pain Intensity, Affect and Disability in CLBP
CompletedNot applicableNCT04482075
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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 association between pressure pain threshold and different aspects of low back pain has garnered attention over the years. However, since most of such studies in the past employed cross sectional designs, a longitudinal study design with follow-up measurements is required to further investigate this relationship. Studying this relationship will not only offer insights into the phenomenon of pain but may also bring us one step closer to achieving the seemingly insurmountable goal of objectively measuring back pain and its different dimensions.
Study details
- Official title
- Cross-modality Matching Between Pressure Pain Threshold and Subjective Ratings of Pain Intensity, Affect and Disability in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain.
- Conditions
- Pain Threshold
- Low Back Pain
- Pain Measurement
- Interventions
- Other: segmental stability training
- Sponsor
- Dow University of Health Sciences
- Start date
- 2019-07-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-12-23
- Sex
- Male
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 50 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Pakistan
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult males with low back pain with an age group of 18-50 years. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Individuals having low back pain for less than 3 months. 2. Individuals with specific underlying pathology as the cause of CLBP. (Active oncological disease, Known disc derangement, cauda equina syndrome, spinal trauma i.e. fracture, neuropathy i.e. sciatica or severe root compression, spinal structural deformity, infection, inflammatory joint disease, spinal stenosis, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis). 3. Individuals having neurological diseases (including central and peripheral diseases); metabolic diseases (i.e. diabetes and hypothyroidism); coagulopathies (i.e. haemophilia). 4. Individuals with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS); myofascial pain syndrome (MPS); allodynia (stroking hyperalgesia). 5. Individuals suffering from aphasia or suffering from deafness, blindness or muteness. 6. Individuals with skin disease (i.e. psoriasis, scleroderma, leprosy, etc.) or skin lesions (i.e. abrasion/laceration/ bruise) in the low back region. 7. Individuals having oral temperature of 100 F or above. 8. Individuals who have undergone spinal surgery. 9. Individuals scoring 28+ for depression, 20+ for anxiety, 34+ for stress on DASS-21. 10. Individuals in whom prone lying causes significant discomfort (i.e. dyspnoea etc.). 11. Individuals who do not perceive pressure pain below 10 kg/cm2 during PPT testing. 12. Individuals evincing bruising to PPT testing.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04482075