Low Back Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Balneotherapy, Chronic low back pain, Controlled, Randomized trial, weight bath traction, follow-up
Brief summary
It is typical of chronic low back pain that, after the first painful episode, is repeated at 44-78% of patients. For acute lumbar pain, approx. 10-15% of them are converted into chronic. Conservative treatments are few studies done in the traction therapy. A large number of multicenter trials did not evaluate the effectiveness of underwater traction therapy.
Detailed description
Goals are the followings: 1. Is the beneficial effect of a weight bath comparable to a non-treated control group with respect to clinical parameters? 2. How much does the quality of life change in an initial state and how much is it in comparison with the control group?
Interventions
OTHERquestionnaires
Examination of the spinal mobilization in cm. The pain and quality of life assessment of functional status through questionnaires.
Sponsors
Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, Budapest
Study design
Observational model
CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* at least 12 weeks of non-specific lymphatic pain, * the pain sensitivity of the paravertebral muscle and the painful movement of the lumbar spine can be observed, which can be characterized by segmental motion, segmental instability or other reasons * radiographically confirmed spondylosis, discopathy, and spondylarthrosis within one year. * back pain at least 30mm (100mm visualis analogue scale). * patients could not received systemic or locally administered steroid therapy, physiotherapy or they get balneotherapy in the last 2 months p- atient consent form signed before the start of test
Exclusion criteria
* The
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| prove the hypothesis that weight bath traction has favorable effect. of LBP using the change in the clinical parameters. | at the first visit and After at the 3 and the 12 weeks | Change From Baseline in Pain Scores on the Visual Analog Scale at the 3 and the 12 weeks after the treatment.Pain intensity was measured by using the Visual Analog Scale (0-100 mm). Patients recorded on the VAS scale the level of low back pain at rest as well as during activity. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Secondary objective was to evaluate whether it also leads to the improvement in the quality of life. | at the first visit and After at the 3 and the 12 weeks | Change From Baseline in level of disability in 10 everyday activities of daily life , the Functional disability by using the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) . |
| Secondary objective was to evaluate whether it also leads to the improvement in the movements of the lumbal spine. | at the first visit and After at the 3 and the 12 weeks | Change From Baseline in level improvements in the parameters of clinical lumbal spine movements in centimeters |
Countries
Hungary
Outcome results
None listed