Healthy Volunteers With and Without Chronic Low Back Pain
Conditions
Brief summary
Evaluation of the effectiveness of an individually educated exercise program for the lower back at home in employees over a period of 20 weeks. We hypothesize that regular exercise for the lower back results in greater improvements of low back strengths compared to controls.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALExercise
Educated exercise training for the trunk 3 times per week, each for 20 min. Recommendation of additional fitness courses as offered by the local healthy insurance company.
Sponsors
Hannover Medical School
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 67 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* men and women * age between 18 and 67 years
Exclusion criteria
* beeing currently involved in an exercise program for the lower back * known drug or alcohol abuse * any disease that excludes the participation in an exercise program * clinical relevant acute or chronic infections * pregnant women
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Back strength (kg) | At baseline and after 20 weeks | Assessed with the back-check 607 (Dr. WOLFF Sports and Prevention) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Strenght at lateral flexion of the trunk (kg) | At baseline and after 20 weeks | Assessed with the back-check 607 (Dr. WOLFF Sports and Prevention) |
| Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Score | At baseline and after 20 weeks | Assessed with the Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability questionaire |
| Pain (scale) | At baseline and after 20 weeks | Assessed with the visual analog scale |
| Quality of life (score) | At baseline and after 20 weeks | Assessed with the short form 36 questionaire |
| Work ability index (score) | At baseline and afetr 20 weeks | Assessed with the WAI questionaire |
| Physical activity (score) | At baseline and after 20 weeks | Assessed with the Freiburger activity questionaire |
| Fat mass and fat-free mass (kg) | At baseline and after 20 weeks | Assessed with Bio Impedance Analysis |
| sick days (numbers) | At baseline and after 20 weeks | sick days at work will be assessed for the 20 weeks of the active intervention and the whole year the intervention is conducted |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed