Low Back Pain
Conditions
Brief summary
Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a adapted exercise program and general exercise recommendations compared with only general exercise recommendations for the management of chronic back pain among the workers of BSH (Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte), a manufacturing company.
Detailed description
Design: Randomized controlled trial. Participants: Subjects (N\_40 volunteers) experimental group (n\_20) control group (n\_20). All of the participants needs to be diagnosed with chronic back pain by a physician. Participants are going to be randomly assigned to two groups: a control group (CG), and experimental group (EG). Intervention: The experimental group is going to follow a home-exercise program designed specifically to compensate the overloads and strength necessities of the workplace, the patient enter the description of the workplace in a mobile application (APP) and the APP shows specific exercises that the patient needs to practice. The exercise program includes muscle strengthening, flexibility, and endurance training, during 2 months, 3 times/week and generla recommendations. The control group is going to receive only general recommendation (ACSM recommendations) with the same kind of mobile application to control the amount of exercise that each patient performs during the week. Data on pain intensity (BPI short form, Brief Pain Inventory), disability (Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire), functional assessment of the lumbar spine (EMG Flexion-relaxation test), amount of weekly physical activity (IPAQ), and number of sick leaves are going to be measured immediately before and after intervention and 3 months after the end of the intervention period.
Interventions
OTHERAdapted exercise
2 months, 3 times/week
OTHERGeneral exercise recommendations
2 months, 3 times/week
Sponsors
Mutua MAZ
BSH electrodomésticos España S.A.
Universidad San Jorge
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* BSH industry workers. * Spine pain diagnosed by a doctor, that has caused a previously sick-leave. The pain does not incapacitate to the patient to perform his job. * In possession of a next-generation mobile.
Exclusion criteria
* Lumbar injury that does not let the patient performs his work or an exercise program.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in lumbar pain intensity | Baseline, at the end of the two weeks training period and three months after the end of the training period. | The assessment is performed with Brief Pain Index short form Self-administered questionnaire with 9 questions. |
| Change in disability caused by lumbar pain | Baseline, at the end of the two weeks training period and three months after the end of the training period. | The assessment is performed with Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire, |
| Change in the functional assessment of the lumbar spine | Baseline, at the end of the two weeks training period and three months after the end of the train | Functional assessment of the lumbar spine with EMG Flexion-relaxation test: |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in weekly physical activity amount | Baseline, at the end of the two weeks training period and three months after the end of the training period. | Weekly physical activity performed by the patient assessed by the IPAQ |
| Incidence of sick-leave caused by lumbar pain | 1 year | — |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed