Evaluation of the Comfort Increase Provided by an Additional Foam Pad on a Lumbar Belt and Its Biophysical Impact

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Conditions studied: Low Back Pain, Healthy Volunteer

In brief

The spine is the central musculoskeletal system of the back. It carries and supports a major part of the body weight and ensures simultaneously the trunk's mobility, particularly the mobility of the lumbar spine and the head's mobility by moving the cervical spine. Back pain in the lumbar spine area is the most common kind of pain with a prevalence of 60 to 70 per cent in industrialized countries (Jellema2001).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07355790

Run by

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

People needed

15

Starts

2025-12-09

Expected to finish

2027-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 50. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Healthy volunteer, men or women, aged 18 to 50 years old without lumbar pathology.
• Volunteer beneficiary of a social security scheme.
• Volunteer informed about the study and having co-signed a consent form to participate to the study with the investigator

You may not qualify if…

• Protected persons
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women
• Persons deprived of freedom, hospitalised without consent, hospitalised with other ends then research.
• Adults under legal protection (protection of vulnerable adults) or not able to express consent.
• Persons showing gait difficulties (test on treadmill) or with neurological/joint pathologies promoting falls (Parkinson, hemiplegia, …)
• Patient seen by a doctor for lumbar pain in the 2 months prior to the inclusion.
• Patient suffering from scoliosis
• Refusal of consent
• Contraindication to MRI
• Patient carrying an internal electronic device (pacemaker, neurostimulator, insulin pump…)
• Patient with known allergies to one of the product components (e.g. latex)
• During the first MRI, volunteers showing prior signs of lower back pain or discopathy will be excluded.

Where it is running

• Chu Saint Etienne — Saint-Etienne, France (enrolling)

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