Mulligan Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glides Versus McKenzie Method in Patients With Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT05840666
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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)
Low back pain (LBP) is the most frequent complaint encountered in clinical practice. Exercises and manual therapy prescription are common physical therapy treatments prescribed for the patients presenting with chronic low back pain. The interventions will establish the future direction for practitioners in choosing the manual therapy or repeated exercises as effective prescription and provide a basis for future research
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Mulligan Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glides Versus McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy in Patients With Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Mulligan Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glide (SNAG)
- Other: McKenzie Method
- Other: Conventional Physical Therapy
- Sponsor
- Ayesha Jamil
- Organization
- University of Lahore
- Start date
- 2021-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2023-06-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 45 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: * Patients of Both genders * Adult patents between the 20 to 45 years of age with chronic non-specific low back pain. * Pain intensity of at least 3 or greater on 0-10 Numeric Rating Scale. * Modified Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire score equal to or greater than 20%. Exclusion Criteria: * Serious underlying pathology with red flags. * Patients having contraindication to physical exercises. * Females with high parity. * Pregnant or lactating females. * Patients who participated in any type of rehabilitative training or exercise program for back pain in last 1 month. * Spinal deformity or Spinal stenosis. * History of fall or trauma to spine in last one year. * History of spinal, abdominal or hip surgery. * Signs of nerve root compression with sensory, motor or deep tendon reflexes deficit. * Serious underlying pathology with red flags. * Systemic disease e.g., cardiovascular, metabolic or central nervous system. * Osteopenia, osteoporosis. * Medication's history (steroids, immunosuppressants, chemotherapy) * Limb length discrepancy.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05840666