Low Back Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Low back pain, health education, physical therapy
Brief summary
The primary purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a brief educational program and of an additional program in physical therapy, for the treatment of low back pain in Primary Care of the Spanish National Health Service. This is a controlled, cluster randomized community trial.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALGeneral health talk
Routine clinical practice and talk on general health
BEHAVIORALHandout of The Back Book
Talk on health of the back and handout of The Back Book
BEHAVIORALBack exercise
Routine clinical practice, talk on back health, handout of The Back Book and back exercise
Sponsors
Consejería de Sanidad, Junta de Castilla y León
Kovacs Foundation
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Consultation for low back pain, with or without referred or radiated pain; no signs of systemic disease or criteria for surgery.
Exclusion criteria
* Inability to fill out the questionnaires (blindness, dementia, illiteracy; total habitual prostration; * Diagnosis of rheumatologic inflammatory disease, fibromyalgia or cancer in last 5 years; * Suspicion of fibromyalgia.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Intensity of pain, measured at baseline, 90, and 180 days later | 6 months |
| Disability, measured at baseline, 90, and 180 days later | 6 months |
| Sick leave, measured at baseline, 90, and 180 days later | 6 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Fear avoidance beliefs, measured at baseline, 90, and 180 days later | 6 months |
| Quality of life, measured at baseline, 90, and 180 days later | 6 months |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed