The purpose of the study is determine whether the Core Stability Exercise is more effective than the traditional Back School for low back pain (LBP) in women.
The aim of this study is to check what kind of exercises are the best to treat LBP with regard to clinical improvements. The secondary objectives are: to determine which treatment is more effective in improving pain in the fewest sessions possible, to determine the involvement of inflammatory biomarkers in the development of pain and revalue the results after one month of having finishing treatment. The project is a longitudinal, single-blind and randomized study with two treatment groups: GROUP 1: Infrared light+ Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) + Core Stability Exercises. GROUP 2: Infrared light + Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) + Traditional Back School. Duration of treatment: 4 weeks. The participants will performe the exercises in 20 daily sessions (Monday to Friday) guided by a physiotherapist. Following treatment with the physiotherapist, the participants should perform the exercises at home for 4 weeks at a rate of three times per week.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
30
The increase in intra-abdominal pressure stiffens and strengthens the relevant structural support around the spine, compacts the arthrogenic structures and in combination with abdominal contraction, it can encourage a rigid cylinder and stiffness to occur around the spine. The relevant anatomy in these type of exercises are deep muscles like transversus abdominous, multifidus or pelvic floor. The participants will have to do 10 different exercises. They will have to perform from 8 to 10 repetitions of every exercise, guided by a physical therapist. They will be recommended about making some series more at home, three days a week, when the treatment was finished.
The back school exercises are based in the traditional activity used for improve the back pain symptoms using the breathing with the stretching of the trunk muscles, the erector spinae reinforcement, the abdominal reinforcement or the postural movements. The participants will have to do 10 different exercises. They will have to perform from 8 to 10 repetitions of every exercise, guided by a physical therapist. They will be recommended about making some series more at home, three days a week, when the treatment was finished.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Reus, Tarragona, Spain
RECRUITINGChanges in Visual Scale Analogue (VAS)
The VAS scale represents the pain intensity on a line of 10 cm, and one end there are the words "no pain" and the other end "the worst imaginable pain" written the distance in centimetres from the "no pain" point to the place marked by the patient represents the intensity of pain.
Time frame: Pain was measured at the beginning of the study (session 0), and changes are evaluated again at sessions 10, 20, and 1 month later.
Changes in the Roland- Morris Disability Questionnaire
It consists of 24 items, which reflect limitation in different activities of daily living attributed by the patient to LBP. The patient must mark each item that applies to her current status. Scoring is also simple and fast; each checked item receives a score of 1, so scores range between 0 (no disability caused by LBP) and 24 (the maximum possible disability).
Time frame: Disability was measured at the beginning of the study (session 0), and changes are evaluated again at sessions 10, 20, and 1 month later.
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Used equipment: MEGASONIC 313 P4 (Carin). Application program number 15: analgesic TENS with stimulation of afferent fibers. Type of current: two-phase TNS. Width of the impulse: 70µs. Frequency of the impulse: 100Hz. Train: Not. Pause / pause activates: Not. Time of treatment: 20 minutes.
Used equipment: INFRA - 2000 (Enraf Nonius) with the following parameters: 230 V / 50-60 Hz / 1.2 A