An interventional study of Electromagnetic Therapy and Transcutaneous Electrical Neurological Stimulation in Low Back Pain, sponsored by University Rovira i Virgili. Completed at 1 site in Spain. Open to female participants aged 50 Years to 85 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-05-23.
Sponsored by University Rovira i Virgili · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Aim: To evaluate and compare the effectiveness of a combined treatment of TENS or Elec-tromagnetic and Back School with the effectiveness of only the Back School treatment.
Design: Single-blind experimental prospective study of clinic intervention. Setting: Physiotherapy and Speech Therapy Unit at the Cambrils Slight Hospital. Spain.
Population: 96 women (50-85 years) with chronic low back pathology. Methods: Subjects were divided into three randomized groups: Back School (group 1), TENS with Back School (group 2), and Magnetic therapy with Back School (group 3). They have re-ceived 20 sessions of treatment. The intensity of pain (EVA Scale) and the quality of life (Oswestry Scale) were measured, at the beginning and at the end of the treatment and after three and six months. Anthropometric and physical activity variables were collected.
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Exclusion Criteria:
The group had performed 20 sessions of EM therapy for 20 minutes and after had a 25 minutes from Back School intervention.
Procedure: Electromagnetic Therapy · Procedure: Back School
The group had performed 20 sessions of TENS therapy for 20 minutes and after had a 25 minutes from Back School intervention.
Procedure: Transcutaneous Electrical Neurological Stimulation · Procedure: Back School
The group had performed 20 sessions of Back School therapy for 25 minutes.
Procedure: Back School
20 sessions from Monday to Friday of 20 minutes of Electromagnetic Therapy, using the next parameters: 10 Hz of frequency and 60% of intensity, and 20 sessions from Monday to Friday of 25 minutes of Back School, the exercises were based on the re-education of breathing, self stretching trunk muscles, erector spine reinforcement, abdominal reinforcement and postural exercises. The participants had been performing 8 to 10 repetitions of each exercise and they had been recommended about making a series more at home.
Procedure/Surgery: Transcutaneous Electrical Neurological Stimulation (TENS) 20 sessions from Monday to Friday of 20 minutes of TENS Therapy using the next parameters: 100μs of impulse width, 80 Hz of impulse frequency, and 20 sessions from Monday to Friday of 25 minutes of Back School, the exercises were based on the re-education of breathing, self stretching trunk muscles, erector spine reinforcement, abdominal reinforcement and postural exercises. The participants had been performing 8 to 10 repetitions of each exercise and they had been recommended about making a series more at home.
25 minutes of Back School, the exercises were based on the re-education of breathing, self stretching trunk muscles, erector spine reinforcement, abdominal reinforcement and postural exercises. The participants had been performing 8 to 10 repetitions of each exercise and they had been recommended about making a series more at home.
Pain was measured at the beginning and after the treatment with the Visual Scale Analogue (VAS)
The VAS scale represents the pain intensity on a line of 10 cm, at one end there are the words "no pain" and the other end "the worst imaginable pain " written, the distance in centimetres from the "no pain" point to the place marked by the patient represents the intensity of pain
Time frame: 24 weeks
Oswestry disability index (ODI)
. The ODI assesses nine different aspects of disability, affecting various functions of daily life (personal care, lifting, walking, sitting, standing, sleeping, sex life, social life, and traveling). The questionnaire is scored using a global percentage score. For every section, one of six options is chosen. Each section is scored 0-5, with 0 indicating no limitation of function due to pain, and with 5 indicating major functional disability due to back pain.
Time frame: 24 weeks
Questionnaire of Physical Activity (ClassAF)
Is a method developed by the Health Department of the Catalan Government. The ClassAf is a comprehensive questionnaire which contains a few items (1-4) to measure the general level of Physical Activity, it is calculated in METS (basal metabolic expenditure: mlO2/kg.min) and it allows to classify people into physically active or physically inactive.
Time frame: 4 weeks
Body Mass Index (BMI)
On the basis of BMI (kg/m2), subjects were classified as Obesity (BMI over 30), overweight (BMI between 25 and 29.9) or normal weight (BMI between 18.5 and 24.9).
Time frame: 4 weeks
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