The Forgotten Role of Back Muscle Characteristics to Tailor Exercise Therapy for Recurrent Non-specific Low Back Pain

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Conditions studied: Low Back Pain, Back Pain Lower Back Chronic

In brief

Patients with non-specific low back pain will be compared to healthy, age- and sex-matched controls to determine the most discriminating back muscle characteristics and to delineate possible phenotypes of patients with non-specific low back pain showing impaired proprioceptive postural control. Additionally, the group of patients with non-specific low back pain will receive a 16-week, high-load proprioceptive training program. The effects of this training program on the different back muscle characteristics and proprioceptive postural control will be evaluated.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05851196

Run by

Hasselt University

People needed

100

Starts

2024-01-15

Expected to finish

2027-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2024-02-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with non-specific low back pain:
• Aged 18-60 years
• Non-specific low back pain without radicular leg pain
• Mechanical low back pain with episodes of <4 on the numerical pain rating scale and episodes of >6 on the numerical pain rating scale
• Non-specific low back pain for three months or more
• Score of 20% or more on the Modified Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire
• Informed consent to participate
• Healthy controls:
• Aged 18-60 years
• No history of low back pain needing medical treatment or resulting in a limited activity level
• No low back pain in the previous six months
• Informed consent to participate

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnancy
• Previous trauma or surgery to the spine, pelvis or lower limbs
• Structural spinal deformity (e.g., scoliosis)
• Neurological, neuromuscular, respiratory or systemic disease
• Central sensitization: score of 50/100 or more on the Central Sensitization Inventory
• Specific vestibular or balance problems
• Acute lower limb or neck problems
• Body mass index of 30 kg/m² or more

Where it is running

• REVAL Rehabilitation Research Center, Hasselt University — Diepenbeek, Belgium (enrolling)
• Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven — Leuven, Belgium (enrolling)

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