BOOST Workshop Versus Traditional 1-1 Physiotherapy for Back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT04968444
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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 research is aiming to address whether a group workshop is a more superior treatment to traditional physiotherapy for the management of back pain in a hospital workforce. In the UK during 2016-17, 31.2 million work days were lost due to work-related ill health and injury. Of these 8.9 million were down to musculoskeletal disorders. This equated to 17.6 days per person. In the general population, the reports of low back pain have been as high as 36% of adults with a first occurrence. In an adult's lifetime, the prevalence of chronic low back pain is about 23%. This makes the importance of managing these conditions of great importance. And the impact to a working population is great, in respects to work satisfaction, sickness and absenteeism. Significance should also be placed on the impact this has to the individual, with regards to their health and wellbeing. The participants will be taken from NHS staff working within the hospital environment and that self-refer internally for physiotherapy into the Trust's Occupational Health Service. Once the participants are accepted in Occupational Health Physiotherapy, they are managed as staff requiring physiotherapy and not at 'patients'. There is no contact with their primary care practitioner. For the study, participants will either receive traditional one to one physiotherapy or a bespoke one off workshop. All of the participants will be followed up 3 months after their treatment has finished.
Study details
- Official title
- The Bespoke One-Off Spinal Treatment (BOOST) Workshop Versus Traditional 1:1 Physiotherapy Care for the Management of Hospital Staff With Chronic Spinal Pain: A Randomised Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Physiotherapy
- Other: Back Pain Workshop
- Sponsor
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Start date
- 2022-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2023-04-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
The inclusion/exclusion criteria are as follows: Inclusion criteria: 1. Staff member of GSTFT 2. New referral with a history of spinal pain (cervical/ thoracic/ lumbar) for more than 3 months 3. Consents to attend 2 sessions - seminar and follow up if in BOOST workshop, or complies with one to one treatment as outlined by the treating therapist. Exclusion criteria: 1. Acute spinal pain - that of 6 weeks or less 2. Had treatment for the condition of chronic spinal pain in last 6 months as may still be gaining treatment benefits from this and unclear if change was due to our interventions
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04968444