Improvement in Pain,Function and HRQoL ( Health Related Quality of Life) in Subacute Low Back Pain: A Controlled Clinical Trial of Exercise vs NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory)

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Our clinical trial has the purpose to evaluate the effectiveness in reducing pain and improving function and quality of life during a 6-months follow-up of a therapeutic exercise program compared to pharmacological treatment with NSAIDs in patients with subacute low back pain attending the physiatrist consultation of several ambulatory health centers in Medellín during the years 2009-2010.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Grupo Rehabilitacion en Salud
• Collaborator: Universidad de Antioquia
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Anti-Inflammatory Agents; Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; Celecoxib; Naproxen

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged between 18 and 60 years old

• Subacute low back pain -evolution time more than 4 weeks and less than 3 months.

• That have social security system

• Live in the metropolitan area

Exclusion Criteria:

• Antecedents of spinal, pelvis or abdominal trauma

• Cancer

• Diabetes mellitus

• Steroids use

• Men and Women over 60 years

• Cauda equine syndrome

• Women and men with osteoporosis or compression fractures

• Suspicion of infection.

• Insidious onset, constitutional symptoms

• Intravenous drugs abuse

• HIV

• Immunosuppression or previous surgery

• Rheumatic diseases

• Urinary tract infections

• Neurological symptoms in lower limbs

• Mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar or somatomorphic disorder, major depression)

• Deformities in the spine (scoliosis greater than 15º)

• History of peptic acid disease

• Renal failure

• Intake of anticoagulants or antiplatelet drugs

• Allergy to NSAIDs.