Effect of Treatment Device for proprioceptive function in the elderly patients with chronic low back pain

JRCT ID: jRCTs042200058

Registered date:02/11/2020

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Complete
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Chronic low back pain
• Date of first enrollment: 02/11/2020
• Target sample size: 30
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): This device is used to perform proprioceptive function diagnosis for elderly people with chronic low back pain and to identify proprioceptor receptors with impaired function. A frequency-matched vibrational stimulus that responds to a dysfunctional receptor is applied once a minute for 3 minutes a day for 2 weeks to evaluate improvement in proprioceptive function and low back pain.

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: Intensity of low back pain

Secondary Outcome

Improvement in proprioceptive function
Disability caused by low back pain

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 65age old
• Age maximum: Not applicable
• Gender: Both

Include criteria

1. Low back pain lasting for more than 6 months.
2. Pain intensity visual analogue scale (VAS) more than 3.
3. No specific fidings for low bacl pain on ragiogram or MRI of the lumbar spine.
4. In proprioceptive function diagnosis, a decrease in proprioceptive function based on Z score <-1.0 is observed.

Exclude criteria

1. Past history of vertebral fractrure within 1 year.
2. Persons who need asistence for standing.
3. Patients who has central nerve disease such as cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, brain or soinal tunorsa and cervical or thocacic myeloptahy.
4. Myogenic disease such as muscular dystrophy.

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Yoshihito Sakai