Aerobic exercise training in addition to conventional physiotherapy for chronic low back pain

Aerobic exercise training in addition to conventional physiotherapy for chronic low back pain: a randomised controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN23753357

Enrollment

Registered

2010-04-30

Start date

2006-03-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-01-13

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Conditions

Chronic low back pain Musculoskeletal Diseases

Interventions

Participants in the intervention and control group received 8 weeks of intervention. All participants were supervised by a physiotherapist for each treatment session. Participants in the intervention

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Participants who had low back pain (LBP) symptoms for at least 12 weeks 2. Medically fit for physical fitness testing 3. Either sex, age 18-60

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Cardiorespiratory conditions that affected the ability to participate in an aerobic exercise training program 2. Evidence of possible systemic disease 3. Inflammatory disease or malignancy 4. Treated on workers? compensation claims. 5. Have had physiotherapy treatment for back pain in the three months before recruitment

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Pain as measured with a 100mm visual analogue scale (VAS), evaluated at baseline and at 8 weeks 2. Functional disability using Aberdeen Low Back Pain Disability Scale (ALBPS). The disability scale ranged between 0 and 72, with higher scores representing greater back pain severity. The scores were converted to a scale of 0 to 100 for comparison. These were evaluated at baseline, 8 weeks and 12 months.	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Pain as measured with a 100mm visual analogue scale (VAS), evaluated at baseline and at 8 weeks 2. Functional disability using Aberdeen Low Back Pain Disability Scale (ALBPS). The disability scale ranged between 0 and 72, with higher scores representing greater back pain severity. The scores were converted to a scale of 0 to 100 for comparison. These were evaluated at baseline, 8 weeks and 12 months.

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Physical fitness parameters measured at baseline and at 8 weeks. The parameters evaluated were aerobic capacity, muscular endurance, flexibility and body fat composition.	—

Countries

Hong Kong

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026