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A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Stay-Active Care and Manual Therapy Versus Stay-Active Care Only in Subacute Low Back Pain in a Primary Health Care Setting. The Gotland Low Back Pain Study
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Stay-active care, Stay-active care+stretching, and 2 other interventions for Subacute Low Back Pain. Completed, enrolled 160 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
A randomized controlled trial over a 10-week period with a two-year follow-up. The objectives were to compare effects of manual therapy in addition to the stay-active concept versus the stay-active concept only in low back pain patients recruited from primary health care. 160 outpatients with acute or subacute low back pain with or without pain radiation into the legs (70 women, 90 men, ages 20-55 years) were recruited from a geographically defined area and randomly allocated to stay-active care with or without muscle stretching, or to manual therapy with or without specific corticosteroid injections in addition to the stay-active concept. Pain, disability rating index, and sickness absence measures were used as outcome at 10-week follow-up and sickness absence was measured at two-year follow-up.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
No other treatment than the stay-active care
Stay-active care and muscle stretching at home and during physiotherapist appointments
Manual therapy in addition to stay-active care and stretching given during GP or physiotherapist appointments and matching home exercises
Manual therapy including steroid injection when indicated in addition to stay-active care and stretching during GP appointments (injections) and during GP or physiotherapist appointments (remaining treatment modalities)