The ESCAPE trial for older people with chronic low back pain: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low-back pain is one of the most common health conditions worldwide. It is defined as pain below the costal margin and above the inferior gluteal folds. Current guidelines recommend management of chronic health (e.g., low back pain) conditions in older people at primary health care settings using active strategies (e.g., exercise). In non-specific low back pain, high quality evidence supports active strategies for general population. However, the management of non-specific low back pain in the older people has been overlooked and evidence is limited to a small number of low powered randomized controlled trials with high risk of bias.

Methods

This is a prospectively registered, open, two-arm randomised controlled trial comparing the group-based exercise and waiting

SUBMITTER: Silva HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9135264 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature