Gluteus Medius Strengthening n Non Specific Chronic Low Back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT05521165
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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)
To study the effect of adding selected G Med muscle strengthening exercises to the APTA-guided program on pain, disability level, and G Med macromorphology in patients with NSCLBP.
Study details
- Official title
- Effect of Gluteus Medius Strengthening on Pain, Function, and Muscle Macromorphology in Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Gluteus Medius, Ultrasonography, NSCLBP
- Interventions
- Other: therapeutic exercises
- Sponsor
- Cairo University
- Start date
- 2022-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2023-09-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 45 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * 1\. Patients aged between 20-45yrs 2. Patients with NSCLBP (pain \> 3 months). 3. NSCLBP must have been present for at least the previous 12 weeks. 4. Patients with unilateral or bilateral symptoms that are worse on one side than the other, are referred by an orthopedist. Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. 'Red Flag' symptoms include, a history of major trauma, persistent night pain, bladder or bowel dysfunction, and/or lower extremity neurological deficit. 2\. History of previous back surgery. 3. History of the previous pelvis or hip surgeries. 4. Recent or old fractures in lower limbs. 5. Cognitive impairment and inability to understand the scale. 6. Systemic inflammatory diseases e.g., rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05521165