Effects of Low-Dose Therapist-Led Self-Exercise Education on the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain: Protocol for a Community-Based, Randomized, 6-Month Parallel-Group Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic low back pain (CLBP), defined as low back pain persisting for at least 3 months, leads to limitations in the activities of daily living and decreased quality of life. Individualized self-exercise education could be a preferable treatment option, especially in community-dwelling people with CLBP. Previous studies, however, did not directly compare the effects of therapist-led self-exercise education and material-only education, and there are only a few studies investigating the effects of low-dose (comprising a few sessions) self-exercise education on CLBP. We present a protocol of community-based, randomized study to evaluate the effects of low-dose (comprising a few sessions), therapist-led self-exercise education on CLBP.

Methods

Forty-eight participan

SUBMITTER: Jinnouchi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6834468 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature