Effects of Diaphragmatic Manual Therapy in Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT ID: NCT02343185

Last Updated: 2017-08-08

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

64 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-01-31

Study Completion Date

2016-06-30

Brief Summary

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This study is a double-blind randomized clinical trial with two arms which aims to study the effects of diaphragmatic treatment in patients with nonspecific low back pain.

Low back pain has a great importance in today's society, and it is therefore important to develop an effective treatment for this condition. People with chronic nonspecific low back pain, can present respiratory disorders and get anxiety states, affecting mainly the diaphragm muscle. Therefore, given its direct anatomic relationship, the diaphragm may be part of the development of chronic low back pain. Although clinical practice guidelines for chronic low back pain have been developed, it hasn't been explored before a physiotherapy treatment especially aimed at a diaphragmatic treatment.

A double-blind randomized clinical trial with two arms will be used for this purpose, 64 patients with nonspecific low back pain referred from different hospitals of Castellón will be randomized into two groups:

* Diaphragmatic intervention with osteopathic manual therapy treatment (D).
* Diaphragmatic intervention with placebo treatment group (P).

An osteopathic manual therapy protocol for the treatment of back pain including techniques for the diaphragm muscle will be applied to the patients in group D, in a total of 5 sessions. For patients in group P, the same protocol will be performed on the diaphragm but with placebo treatment techniques.

The study focuses on the analysis of the following variables: scores on the questionnaires:

* Pain: McGill Pain Questionnaire and VAS (Visual Analogical Scale ).
* Fear Avoidance: (FABQ)
* Disability: Oswestry Disability Index and Roland-Morris
* Anxiety: HADS: (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale)
* Catastropizing: PCS (Pain Catastropizing Scale)
* Satisfaction with treatment (Escala de Satisfacción con el tratamiento)

The results of these pre-intervention and post-intervention variables will be compared between the two groups in the first session, in the fourth session and in the first and third month after the first intervention. The VAS score will also be assessed in the second and third session.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Low Back Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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diaphragmatic treatment

Subjects in this arm receive different manual techniques for the low back pain and diaphragmatic treatment.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

manual therapy with diaphragmatic treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Subjects receive five sesions of manual therapy for low back pain combined with diaphragmatic treatment.

Placebo

Subjects in this arm receive different manual techniques for the low back pain and a sham diaphragmatic treatment.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Placebo treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Subjects receive five sesions of manual therapy for low back pain combined with a sham diaphragmatic treatment.

Interventions

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manual therapy with diaphragmatic treatment

Subjects receive five sesions of manual therapy for low back pain combined with diaphragmatic treatment.

Intervention Type OTHER

Placebo treatment

Subjects receive five sesions of manual therapy for low back pain combined with a sham diaphragmatic treatment.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* low back pain for more than 3 months

Exclusion Criteria

* vertebra fracture
* systemic disease
* spinal surgery
* degenerative articular disease
* acute soft tissue inflammation
* radiculopathy
* structural spine deformities
* pregnancy
* mental disease
* dermatologic disease
* rejection to manual contact
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Cardenal Herrera University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Eva Segura Ortí

PhD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Juan Francisco Lisón, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University CEU UCH

Locations

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University CEU UCH

Moncada, Valencia, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

References

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Assendelft WJ, Morton SC, Yu EI, Suttorp MJ, Shekelle PG. Spinal manipulative therapy for low back pain. A meta-analysis of effectiveness relative to other therapies. Ann Intern Med. 2003 Jun 3;138(11):871-81. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-138-11-200306030-00008.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12779297 (View on PubMed)

Waddell G, Newton M, Henderson I, Somerville D, Main CJ. A Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) and the role of fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and disability. Pain. 1993 Feb;52(2):157-168. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(93)90127-B.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 8455963 (View on PubMed)

Herrero MJ, Blanch J, Peri JM, De Pablo J, Pintor L, Bulbena A. A validation study of the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) in a Spanish population. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2003 Jul-Aug;25(4):277-83. doi: 10.1016/s0163-8343(03)00043-4.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12850660 (View on PubMed)

Andersson GB, Lucente T, Davis AM, Kappler RE, Lipton JA, Leurgans S. A comparison of osteopathic spinal manipulation with standard care for patients with low back pain. N Engl J Med. 1999 Nov 4;341(19):1426-31. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199911043411903.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 10547405 (View on PubMed)

Airaksinen O, Brox JI, Cedraschi C, Hildebrandt J, Klaber-Moffett J, Kovacs F, Mannion AF, Reis S, Staal JB, Ursin H, Zanoli G; COST B13 Working Group on Guidelines for Chronic Low Back Pain. Chapter 4. European guidelines for the management of chronic nonspecific low back pain. Eur Spine J. 2006 Mar;15 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S192-300. doi: 10.1007/s00586-006-1072-1. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16550448 (View on PubMed)

Marti-Salvador M, Hidalgo-Moreno L, Domenech-Fernandez J, Lison JF, Arguisuelas MD. Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Including Specific Diaphragm Techniques Improves Pain and Disability in Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2018 Sep;99(9):1720-1729. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.04.022. Epub 2018 May 19.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 29787734 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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CEU-UCH-125

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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