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The Forgotten Role of Back Muscle Characteristics to Tailor Exercise Therapy for Recurrent Non-specific Low Back Pain
Sponsor: Hasselt University
Summary
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.
Official title: Back to Back: the Forgotten Role of Back Muscle Characteristics to Tailor Exercise Therapy for Recurrent Non-specific Low Back Pain
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 60 Years
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
Start Date
2024-01-15
Completion Date
2027-12-31
Last Updated
2024-02-28
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Proprioceptive training
A physiotherapist tailors the exercises to the patient's functional demands and pain- or fear-inducing activities. Guided by the therapist, patients look for ways to integrate the exercises into their daily life activities. Each week, patients receive feedback from the physiotherapist, and the training program is gradually progressed. The patients are instructed to perform the exercises daily, integrated into their daily activities, hobbies, and work. The program contains: (1) exercises to improve the sense of posture and movement, (2) exercises to correct the reference frame from which patients control posture and movement, (3) muscle control exercises, (4) exercises to increase variability in postures and movement patterns, (5) functionality: patients search for ways to correct and integrate alternative postures and movement patterns into their daily life, (6) high training frequency and high load, (7) focus on sensing, localizing and differentiating, rather than movement control.
Locations (2)
REVAL Rehabilitation Research Center, Hasselt University
Diepenbeek, Belgium
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium