ED Physical Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT05206630
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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)
Emergency department (ED)-initiated physical therapy is a rapidly growing resource and represents a promising treatment approach to low back pain. This clinical trial will evaluate an innovative model of an emergency department "embedded" physical therapist to treat patients with chronic low back pain, with a focus on improving patient functioning and reducing opioid use.
Study details
- Official title
- An Ancillary Cluster-Randomized Trial of Embedded Physical Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: ED Physical Therapy
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
- Collaborators
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Start date
- 2022-01-11
- Primary completion
- 2024-10-03
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 18 years * Low back pain (originating between 12th rib and buttocks) * Evaluated by a physician randomized to either study arm * Evaluated when ED physical therapy is available (e.g., Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm) * Likely to be discharged home (based on physician assessment) * Ability to complete follow-up data collection electronically or by telephone * English-speaking Exclusion Criteria: * Enrollment in the main trial (NEED-PT, NCT04921449) * Serious red-flag signs/symptoms (bladder/bowel incontinence, saddle anesthesia, debilitating motor weakness) * Obvious non-musculoskeletal etiology for low back pain (e.g., shingles, kidney stone) * Other concomitant injuries or pain (e.g., closed head injury, shoulder pain) * Unable to ambulate at baseline * Known pregnancy, under police custody, unable to consent
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05206630