Effects of Therapeutic Exercise on Quality of Life

NCT03529864 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Experim Fac
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 57
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The main objective was to determine the efficacy and safety of a therapeutic exercise program for students. Secondary objectives, determine the prevalence and intensity of musculoskeletal pain (MSP), disability, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL), and satisfaction and perceived improvement with program.

Conditions

Physical Therapy; Health Promotion; Quality of Life

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• SF-36v2 Health Survey

  This is self-administered and consists of 36 items that assess the state of health in 8 dimensions: physical function (PF), role-physical (RP), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH), vitality (VT), social function (SF), role-emotional (RE) and mental health (MH). These dimensions may be reduced to 2 scores: Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS). In order to interpret the results, standardized scores are obtained with the values for the reference population standards, whereby a score of 50 (SD = 10) represented the mean for the general population, and a score of 10 was one standard deviation. Values over or below 50 have to be respectively interpreted as better or worse than those of the reference population.

  7 min

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ-E)

  4 min

• Visual Analogy Scale (VAS)

  2 min

• Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)

  4 min

• Neck Disability Index (NDI)

  4 min

• Flexor trunk endurance test

  10 min

Study Arms (2)

Exercise therapy

EXPERIMENTAL

The participants took part in a progressive exercise therapy program for 9 consecutive weeks, once a week. This consisted of group sessions with 8 or 9 students, with each session lasting 60 minutes, supervised by the principal researcher

Other: Exercise Therapy

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The CG did not receive any type of information or instructions apart from the general information sheet on the progress of the study, attached to the informed consent form

Interventions

Exercise Therapy OTHER

Exercise therapy

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• students taking a course of the Physiotherapy Degree
• having enrolled in October 2014
• having given their informed consent.

You may not qualify if:

• not accepting to take part in the study,
• not attending the initial evaluation sessions,
• having any type of cardiovascular, neuromusculoskeletal or systemic diseases that restricted exercise participation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidade da Coruña: lead

Related Publications (4)

• Hoy D, March L, Brooks P, Blyth F, Woolf A, Bain C, Williams G, Smith E, Vos T, Barendregt J, Murray C, Burstein R, Buchbinder R. The global burden of low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014 Jun;73(6):968-74. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204428. Epub 2014 Mar 24.

  PMID: 24665116 BACKGROUND

• Hoy D, March L, Woolf A, Blyth F, Brooks P, Smith E, Vos T, Barendregt J, Blore J, Murray C, Burstein R, Buchbinder R. The global burden of neck pain: estimates from the global burden of disease 2010 study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014 Jul;73(7):1309-15. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204431. Epub 2014 Jan 30.

  PMID: 24482302 BACKGROUND

• Steffens D, Maher CG, Pereira LS, Stevens ML, Oliveira VC, Chapple M, Teixeira-Salmela LF, Hancock MJ. Prevention of Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Feb;176(2):199-208. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7431.

  PMID: 26752509 BACKGROUND

• Gross AR, Paquin JP, Dupont G, Blanchette S, Lalonde P, Cristie T, Graham N, Kay TM, Burnie SJ, Gelley G, Goldsmith CH, Forget M, Santaguida PL, Yee AJ, Radisic GG, Hoving JL, Bronfort G; Cervical Overview Group. Exercises for mechanical neck disorders: A Cochrane review update. Man Ther. 2016 Aug;24:25-45. doi: 10.1016/j.math.2016.04.005. Epub 2016 Apr 20.

  PMID: 27317503 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Exercise Therapy

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Rehabilitation; Aftercare; Continuity of Patient Care; Patient Care; Therapeutics; Physical Therapy Modalities

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking Details: This study was single-blind, parallel-group, and participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental (EG) or the control group (CG). Randomization was designed after initially evaluating the participants. The EG participated in the progressive exercise therapy program. In contrast, the CG did not receive any type of information or instructions apart from the general information sheet on the progress of the study, attached to the informed consent form.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: University Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Medicine and Physiotherapy. University of A Coruña

Model Details: Why: The design of the intervention took into account the available evidence for the prevention and treatment of neck and low back pain. What: Materials: mats, fit-balls, TheraBands, towels, Dyn-Air cushions, chairs, stretchers. Procedures: 3 levels of exercises of increasing difficulty. Standing warm-up exercises. Exercises involving: body scanner and breathing pattern re-education (4 minutes), neutral lumbar-pelvic position control in all directions (6 minutes); transverse abdominis activation (4 minutes); neutral cervical position control (2 minutes); global stabilizer activation exercises for the lumbar-pelvic and cervical-scapular regions (4 minutes); low back flexibility (2 minutes); and muscular strengthening and stretching (12 minutes). Who provided: Physiotherapist. How: Face to face, group with 8-9 participants.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 15, 2018
• First Posted: May 18, 2018
• Study Start: October 3, 2014
• Primary Completion: October 10, 2014
• Study Completion: October 1, 2016
• Last Updated: May 18, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share