Clinical Prediction Rule for Clinical Lumbar Instability
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Low Back Pain
In brief
The aim of this study is to determine if assessment of additional measures of trunk neuromuscular control will improve the ability to identify patients with low back pain who successfully respond to trunk stabilization exercises. Question: What clinical characteristics are associated with patients that respond positively to a program of core stabilization exercises? Hypothesis: Clinical characteristics that show a decrease in trunk motor control will be associated with a positive response to stabilization exercises.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01085448
- Run by
- Drexel University
- People needed
- 20
- Starts
- 2010-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-11-05
Who can join
Age: 21 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- duration of the current episode of low back pain less than 3 months,
- average pain intensity over past 3 days at least 4 on an 11 point (0 = no pain, 10 = worst pain ever) numeric pain rating scale,
- no medical intervention for low back pain in last 6 months,
- Oswestry score greater than 25%
You may not qualify if…
- permanent structural spinal deformity (e.g., scoliosis)
- history of spinal fracture or diagnosis of osteoporosis
- diagnosis of inflammatory joint disease
- signs of systemic illness or suspected non-mechanical LBP (i.e. spinal tumor or infection)
- previous spinal surgery
- frank neurological loss, i.e., weakness and sensory loss
- history of neurologic disease that required hospitalization,
- active treatment of another medical illness that would preclude participation in any aspect of the study or any lower extremity injury that would potentially alter trunk movement in standing
- leg length discrepancy of greater than 2.5 cm.
- pregnancy
- vestibular dysfunction
Where it is running
- Drexel University — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Optimum Physical Therapy Associates — West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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