Kettlebell Swings & Low Back Pressure Pain Threshold

Short Term Effects of Kettlebell Swings on Low Back Pain Pressure Threshold in Healthy Young Adults Utilizing a Tabata Protocol Format.

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03696615

Enrollment

Registered

2018-10-04

Start date

2014-08-31

Completion date

2014-12-31

Last updated

2018-10-04

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Conditions

Low Back Pain

Keywords

high-intensity

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a high intensity kettlebell workout, utilizing a Tabata protocol format, can decrease objective measures of pain pressure threshold in subjects without low back pain. The results of the study could have implications for the use of high intensity kettlebell workouts in the rehabilitation of patients with low back pain.

Detailed description

The kettlebell swing is a full body, posterior-chain focused, ballistic exercise shown to register large recruitment of the gluteal muscles, which are frequently weak in a patients suffering from low back pain. The Tabata protocol is a high-intensity training protocol in which subjects perform 20 seconds of all out effort (i.e. as many swings as possible), followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated for a total of eight rounds. The rapid contraction-relaxation cycles utilized in the kettlebell swing are theorized to aid in the pumping out of muscle metabolites in the low back musculature, thus providing potential relief of chronic low back pain.

Interventions

OTHERTabata Kettlebell Swing Workout

See description of experimental arm.

OTHERControl

see description of control arm

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 45 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Those subjects between the ages of 18 and 45 * No current low back pain or pre-existing injuries that may be currently affecting them * No positive response on the Health History questionnaire and PAR-Q.

Exclusion criteria

* Current low back pain * Pre-existing injuries currently affecting the subject * Positive response on the Health History Questionnaire or PAR-Q * We will also be excluding minors and prisoners from this study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pressure measured in kilopascals	1 minute post-intervention	Pressure algometry measured in kilopascals

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026