The Effects of Dance Therapy in Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT ID: NCT05301491

Last Updated: 2022-08-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-05-30

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of dance therapy on balance, falling, body awareness and functionality parameters in patients with chronic low back pain. As a result of our study, it is thought that dance therapy will positively affect balance, falling, body awareness and functionality in patients with chronic low back pain compared to conventional therapy.

H 1: Dance therapy improves balance in women with chronic low back pain.

H 2: Dance therapy reduces the risk of falling in women with chronic low back pain.

H 3: Dance therapy increases body awareness in women with chronic low back pain.

H 4: Dance therapy increases functionality in women with chronic low back pain.

H 5: Dance therapy provides more improvement in the parameters investigated compared to conventional therapy in women with chronic low back pain.

Detailed Description

Individuals diagnosed with chronic low back pain and meeting the inclusion criteria are going to be included in the study. These individuals are going to be divided into groups as the odd numbers to study group and even numbers to the control group. Hotpack, ultrasound and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to the patients in the both groups for 3 days a week for 2 months. Besides that, control group is going to perform 40-minute classical exercise program 3 days a week for 2 months. Study group is going to perform dance therapy protocol as indicated below;

• 10 minutes warm-up (stepping),
• 25 minutes of dance (such as; steps, figures using hip and knee flexions, hip circulation, and hip rotations)
• 5 minutes stretching (relaxation) exercises.

Demographic information form is going be filled out patients including information about; age, height (cm), weight (kg), occupation, educational status, bilateral leg length (cm), previous and present diseases, waist/hip ratio, previous surgeries, trunk range of motions, low back pain duration, smoking, falling story. Additionally, following questionnaires are going to be applied to both groups;

• Short Form Mc Gill Pain Questionnaire,
• Oswestry Disability Index,
• Body Awareness Ratio Questionnaire,
• Nottingham Health Profile Questionnaire,
• Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale,
• The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQoL) Scale,
• Y balance test
• Time Up and Go (TUG) test

SPSS version 23 (SPSS Inc, Armonk, NY) program will be used in the analysis of the data. Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon test and student t test will be analyse methods.

Conditions

Low Back Pain; Chronic Pain; Chronic Low-back Pain

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Dance therapy group

This group included in the dance therapy program throughout the study.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Dance Therapy Group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Dance therapy group patients are going to be treated 3 days a week for 8 weeks. Patients who started treatment are going to be randomly divided into groups that includes four individuals, due to COVID-19 pandemic preventions.

Dance therapy is going to be applied with individualized choreographies specially prepared for the patients, taking the expert opinion of the dance therapist. Choreographies of different dance genres (step/aerobic dance, zumba, salsa, bachata, oriental etc.) are going to be used in the program. Sessions are going to be with the practitioner in a bright, clean, empty and noiseless room in front of a full-length wall mirror. The practitioner is going to participate to dance therapy throughout the sessions, allowing patients to imitate movements. Session duration is going to be 40 minutes. Patients will be given a one-minute rest period during music transitions.

Pyhsiotherapy Modalities

Intervention Type: OTHER

20 minutes hotpack, 3-5 minutes ultrasound and 20 minutes conventional type Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to lumbar region of all patients in prone position.

Control group

This group included in the conventional low back pain exercise program throughout the study.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise Group

Intervention Type: OTHER

The patients in the control group is going to perform conventional low back exercises. The program of the patients will start with stretching and warming exercises, and will continue with strengthening exercises.

Exercises planed for control group;

1. Unilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise)

2. Bilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise)

3. Straight leg lifting with the aid of a sheet/rigid band

4. Posterior pelvic tilt

5. Bridge building exercise

6. Cat-camel exercise

7. Half shuttle in sagittal plane

8. Right and left rotational shuttle

9. Trunk hyperextension in prone position

10. Rotational exercise with hip-knee flexed in supine position Patients are going to do exercises with ten repetitions. As the sessions progressed, the number of repetitions will be increased.

Pyhsiotherapy Modalities

Intervention Type: OTHER

20 minutes hotpack, 3-5 minutes ultrasound and 20 minutes conventional type Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to lumbar region of all patients in prone position.

Interventions

Dance Therapy Group

Dance therapy group patients are going to be treated 3 days a week for 8 weeks. Patients who started treatment are going to be randomly divided into groups that includes four individuals, due to COVID-19 pandemic preventions.

Dance therapy is going to be applied with individualized choreographies specially prepared for the patients, taking the expert opinion of the dance therapist. Choreographies of different dance genres (step/aerobic dance, zumba, salsa, bachata, oriental etc.) are going to be used in the program. Sessions are going to be with the practitioner in a bright, clean, empty and noiseless room in front of a full-length wall mirror. The practitioner is going to participate to dance therapy throughout the sessions, allowing patients to imitate movements. Session duration is going to be 40 minutes. Patients will be given a one-minute rest period during music transitions.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Exercise Group

The patients in the control group is going to perform conventional low back exercises. The program of the patients will start with stretching and warming exercises, and will continue with strengthening exercises.

Exercises planed for control group;

1. Unilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise)

2. Bilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise)

3. Straight leg lifting with the aid of a sheet/rigid band

4. Posterior pelvic tilt

5. Bridge building exercise

6. Cat-camel exercise

7. Half shuttle in sagittal plane

8. Right and left rotational shuttle

9. Trunk hyperextension in prone position

10. Rotational exercise with hip-knee flexed in supine position Patients are going to do exercises with ten repetitions. As the sessions progressed, the number of repetitions will be increased.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Pyhsiotherapy Modalities

20 minutes hotpack, 3-5 minutes ultrasound and 20 minutes conventional type Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to lumbar region of all patients in prone position.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Study Group; Control Group; Both Groups

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Those who agree to participate in the study voluntarily
• Having low back pain lasting longer than 3 months,
• Having values between 4 and 7 on the Visual Analog Scale.
• Female individuals between the ages of 18-65

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Hasan Kalyoncu University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Elif Dinler

Research assistant

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Hasan Kalyoncu University

Gaziantep, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

2021/025

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id