The purpose of this study is to determine whether orthopedic spinal supports are effective in the treatment of low back pain.
Back pain is a common and expensive medical condition. Although rarely life-threatening, back disorders are a major cause of pain, disability, and social cost affecting the quality of life in most patients. Although primary care providers routinely treat back pain, little is known about how often primary care providers manage occupation-related symptoms and how outcomes compare with other treatment modalities. Treatment outcomes utilizing a non-operative treatment paradigm have not been adequately studied. This paradigm consists of treating patients sequentially with analgesics, physical therapy, use of back supports, caudal epidural steroid injections, or surgical referral. The use of spinal supports as a complimentary treatment along with physical therapy and posture education is promising.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
The spinal / back supports are made of polymer shield covered by fabric and foam to be used externally to relieve back pain and offer spinal support. They are to be placed in the chair used in workstation related jobs.
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida, United States
Change in Low Back Pain
numeric pain scale was used to determine pain at 1 week intervals starting from week 1 to week 24. Pain scores were determined by the numeric pain score of 1 to 10 (1 being the least painful to 10 being the highest level of pain) then summed up and averaged at 24 time points at 1 week intervals starting from week 1 to week 24.
Time frame: 6 months
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