Physical Activity Interventions To Heal Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04678297
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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)
This study will advance understanding on the mechanisms that mediate improved outcomes for chronic low back pain and provide specific directions for optimizing physical activity interventions for this population.
Study details
- Official title
- Role of Emotion Regulation on Low Back Pain Outcomes
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Physical activity + emotion regulation intervention
- Behavioral: Physical activity control intervention
- Sponsor
- University of Connecticut
- Collaborators
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Start date
- 2020-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2025-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: \- Age \> 18; Report of low back pain \>3 of last 6 months; Willing to attend 12-weeks of yoga or stretching (twice per week); Willing to complete 4 assessments; English Literacy; No changes in pain treatments in the past month; Willing to not change pain treatments during study unless medically necessary; Have not practiced yoga \> 2x in the last 12 months; Exclusion Criteria: \- back surgery within the last 1 year; back pain due to specific systemic problem (e.g., lupus); lower extremity weakness (motor strength 4/5 of the quads, gluts, hamstrings, EHL); sciatica or (+) straight leg raise (SLR); coexisting chronic pain problem (migraine headaches, fibromyalgia); Serious or unstable psychiatric illness (e.g. psychosis, mania, history of suicide attempt); major coexisting medical illness (e.g., cancer, COPD, morbid obesity); Positive Romberg test (with or without sensory neuropathy).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04678297