NCT06552962

Effects of Whole Body Vibrationin in Patients With Non-Specific Low Back Pain

Completed NA Last updated 4 April 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Whole body vibration in Low Back Pain in 34 participants. Completed in 6 February 2025.

Timeline

25 July 2024

Primary endpoint
20 November 2024

6 February 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Istanbul University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	34
Start date	25 July 2024
Primary completion	20 November 2024
Estimated completion	6 February 2025
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Whole body vibration
• lumbar stabilization exercises

Conditions studied

• Low Back Pain — all drugs for Low Back Pain →
• Low Back Pain, Mechanical — all drugs for Low Back Pain, Mechanical →
• Low Back Pain, Postural — all drugs for Low Back Pain, Postural →
• Low Back Pain, Recurrent — all drugs for Low Back Pain, Recurrent →

Sponsor

Istanbul University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Low Back Pain or Low Back Pain, Mechanical. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

After acute low back pain, one third of patients have chronic low back pain. A sedentary lifestyle is a leading cause of mechanical stress-related low back pain and exacerbates chronic low back pain. Balance disorders, postural adjustment disorder, abnormal spinal movements and related muscle imbalance are observed in individuals with chronic low back pain. Conservative treatment is mostly used in treatment. Langevin et al. stated that an abnormal and irregular thoracolumbar connective tissue structure is observed in chronic and recurrent low back pain. It has been said that physiotherapy and rehabilitation methods such as exercise therapy, massage, chiropractic and acupuncture provide changes in the biomechanical components of the affected connective tissue such as stiffness, viscoelasticity and density. Over the past 20 years, exercises with Whole Body Vibration (WBV) have begun to be used as an effective method for reducing pain. Exercises performed with WBV are thought to improve neuromuscular activation and increase muscle strength and joint stabilization. In non-specific chronic low back pain, increased tone is observed in the superficial back muscles. And based on this study, no study has been found examining the effect of vibratory exercise intervention on the tone of superficial back muscles that go into spasm due to pain. In this study, lumbar stabilization exercises, one of the most effective exercise methods in chronic low back pain, will be applied and exercises performed with vibration will have an additional effect.

It is aimed to reveal whether it creates or not. MyotonPRO (myometer) is a digital palpation device that can measure the viscoelastic properties of myofascial tissue. In measurements made with patients with chronic low back pain and healthy controls, While lumbar myofascial tissue elasticity was significantly low in patients; The tone of the lumbar extensor muscles was found to be significantly higher. However, this measurement has not been made before in studies conducted with WBV, which is one of the methods used to reduce pain in individuals with chronic low back pain.

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of exercises performed with WBV on the myofascial tissue of the lumbar region and the tone of the superficial back muscles, on pain, function, muscle strength, balance, proprioception and endurance parameters compared to the group exercising only.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.