An interventional study of Manual lumbar traction and Prone traction in Non-specific Low Back Pain, sponsored by Obafemi Awolowo University. Completed at 1 site in Nigeria. Open to participants aged 40 Years to 75 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-08-26.
Sponsored by Obafemi Awolowo University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
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The study determined the effects of manual Lumbar traction and prone traction on some clinical variables of patients with long standing low back pain.
Traction therapy has been used in the management of low back pain (LBP) especially None Specific Low Back Pain. There are several recommendations on how lumbar traction should be performed, but the type of technique to be applied differs among the sources. Prone traction adapted from inversion therapy which is a form of gravitational traction has been reported to be effective in ameliorating disabilities of patients with low back pain as well reduce pain intensity. Manual lumbar traction is performed by the therapist, pulling at the patient's ankles and has been reported to be effective in relieving pain and reducing disability of patient with None Specific Low Back Pain (NSLBP). Documented evidences on the efficacy of traction in non-specific low back pain are still inconclusive. While manual lumbar traction seems more commonly used, probably owing to its positional advantage, its relative effectiveness compared with manual prone traction is still unknown, hence this study. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of manual lumbar traction and prone traction on pain intensity, disability, spinal range of motion and quality of life in patients with None Specific Low Back Pain.
2,923 studies on the registry are indexed under Low Back Pain; 579 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 25 is below the median of 60 across 2,364 interventional studies indexed under Low Back Pain.
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Compared within Low Back Pain, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Pain. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
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The subjects consist of 25 patients with chronic low back pain. They underwent a manual lumbar traction with Physiotherapist pulling the patients while lying prone on a couch
Other: Manual lumbar traction
This group consist of patients with non specific chronic low back pain that were put on prone traction.
Other: Prone traction
Patient in the group were treated with manual traction
Patient in the group were placed on prone traction
Visual Analogue scale
It measure pain intensity: 0 which is no pain to 10 which is excruciating pain
Time frame: Change is being assessed at the Baseline, 3rd week and 6th week of treatment
Roland Morris low back pain Disability questionnaire
It measures the disability of the patients from 0, no disability to 24 which is the greatest disability
Time frame: Change is being assessed at the Baseline, 3rd week and 6th week of treatment
Goniometer
It measures spinal flexibility in "degree". The flexibility may start from 0 degree and the maximum depends on the flexibility of each participants
Time frame: Change is being assessed at the Baseline, 3rd week and 6th week of treatment
Plan to share: No — The data are kept with the principal investigator. Whosoever is interested can contact him for information
Ran from Jan 2019 to primary completion in Dec 2019, 10 months.
Of 1,231 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Low Back Pain, half reached primary completion within 11 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 4 and three quarters within 26. This study's 10 months is close to that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 1,286 studies reached it within 11 months; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 27.
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