Effect of Back School and Supervised Walking in Sedentary Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

119

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 31, 2002

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2003

Study Completion Date

March 31, 2004

Conditions
Chronic Low Back Pain
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Back School Intervention

Patients were submitted once a week for 5 consecutive weeks to sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, and spine preventive care; 30 minutes of on-place supervised exercises for posture and spine flexibility (muscle stretching, relaxation, strengthening)

BEHAVIORAL

Supervised Walking Intervention

Patients were submitted once a week for 5 consecutive weeks to sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities; 30 minutes of on-place supervised walking in group.

BEHAVIORAL

Back School and Walking

Weekly sessions of 90 minutes including: 30-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, spine preventive care, and about physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities

BEHAVIORAL

Control Group

Weekly sessions of 45 minutes including lectures about: stress control, healthy nutrition (2 lectures), sleep hygiene and injury prevention.; beside the 2-page folder content this group received no other information about LBP, BS or walking all along the follow-up.

Trial Locations (1)

05403-000

Center for Health Promotion - Hospital das Clínicas - FMUSP, São Paulo

All Listed Sponsors
lead

University of Sao Paulo

OTHER

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