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Conditions
Brief summary
The main objective of this study is to know whether in chronic non-specific low back pain, kinesio taping in addition to habitual multimodal treatment decreases the pain and disability, and increases the range of motion of the lumbar spine, in a greater way than the usual treatment alone.
Interventions
The intervention group will include both interventions (habitual multimodal treatment plus kinesio tape) which will commence at the same time.
The whole treatment will be administered by a physiotherapist. It will be perfomed during 15 sessions: once a day, from Monday to Friday, for three weeks. The neuromuscular bandage must be changed every three days.
A: Habitual multimodal treatment. 65 minutes each session, comprising thermotherapy, TENS and stretching as follows:
a) Thermotherapy: cont
The intervention group will include both interventions (habitual multimodal treatment plus kinesio tape) which will commence at the same time. The whole treatment will be administered by a physiotherapist. It will be perfomed during 15 sessions: once a day, from Monday to Friday, for three weeks. The neuromuscular bandage must be changed every three days. A: Habitual multimodal treatment. 65 minutes each session, comprising thermotherapy, TENS and stretching as follows: a) Thermotherapy: continuous microwave at 80Hz, on the lumbar area for 15 minutes. b) TENS for pulsed asymmetrical biphasic rectangular current, pulse rate 2Hz, pulse width 150 micros, intensity of the current between 40 and 100 mA according to the patient´s perception. The current will be applied by means of two channels, putting four adhesive silicone quadrangular electrodes (two on each channel) of 5 cm2 on paravertebral lumbar muscles for 30 minutes. c) Passive stretchings of paravertebral lumbar muscles, psoas-iliac, square lumbar and pyramidal muscles. Each exercise will be performed from 3 to 5 times per session keeping the stretching position from 10 to 20 seconds. The total time for stretchings will be of 20 minutes. B: Kinesio tape Use of neuromuscular bandage on the lumbar area using the muscular technique: three strips of 5 cms of width (two in vertical position on the paravertebral zone and one across on the point of maximum pain) will be placed in the following way: a) With the patient seated in neutral position, the bases of the neuromuscular bandage in the sacrum are fixed. b) The patient flexes and rotates the trunk to one side and the strip of the bandage on the paravertebral lumbar muscles to the contrary side of the rotation is also placed. c) The same operation is performed in the contralateral side. With the patient in neutral position d) The upright moorings are finally fixed exceeding the lumbar curvature. e) A strip of bandage in horizontal direction with a certain tension in the vertebra with maximum pain is placed. f) Finally, the moorings of this last one are fixed but without any tension.
Sponsors
Universidad de Sevilla. Grupo de Investigacion Area de Fisioterapia CTS-305
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
30 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients of both gender diagnosed with chronic non-specific low back pain, with pain, disability and limitation of the range of motion, between the age of 30 to 65.
Exclusion criteria
Lumbar pain associated to a systemic illness. Clear evidences of spinal canal stenosis. Low back pain related to surgery that affects the lumbar spine, the pelvis of the hip. To suffer from a psychological or psychiatric process. To endure some oncological process. To have suffered from vertebral fractures. To endure vertebral anterolisthesis or retrolisthesis To suffer dermatological alteration on the back. A pregnant or having possibilities of being pregnant patient.
Outcome results
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