Trial reportRheumatology international2010
Effects of therapeutic ultrasound and electrical stimulation program on pain, trunk muscle strength, disability, walking performance, quality of life, and depression in patients with low back pain: a randomized-controlled trial.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Therapeutic ultrasound for chronic low back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- The effect of journal impact factor, reporting conflicts, and reporting funding sources, on standardized effect sizes in back pain trials: a systematic review and meta-regression.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2015Pooled it
- Effect of Kinetic Control Retraining on Electromyographic Activity of Trunk Muscles in Patients with Lumbosacral Radiculopathy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2026Trial
- A Study of 60 Patients with Low Back Pain to Compare Outcomes Following Magnetotherapy, Ultrasound, Laser, and Electrotherapy with and without Lumbosacral Kinesiotherapy.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Trial
- Sustained acoustic medicine treatment of discogenic chronic low back pain: A randomized, multisite, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation · 2024Trial
- Low-Intensity Continuous Ultrasound for the Symptomatic Treatment of Upper Shoulder and Neck Pain: A Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.Journal of pain research · 2020Trial
- Laser photobiomodulation is more effective than ultrasound therapy in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a comparative study.Lasers in medical science · 2019Trial
- Effectiveness of ultrasound treatment applied with exercise therapy on patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.Rheumatology international · 2016Trial
- Comparison of high-intensity laser therapy and ultrasound treatment in the patients with lumbar discopathy.BioMed research international · 2015Trial
- Is phonophoresis effective in the treatment of chronic low back pain? A single-blind randomized controlled trial.Rheumatology international · 2013Trial
- The effect of continuous ultrasound on chronic non-specific low back pain: a single blind placebo-controlled randomized trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2012Trial
- The effect of continuous ultrasound on chronic low back pain: protocol of a randomized controlled trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2011Trial
- Comparison of the effectiveness of conventional physical therapy and extracorporeal shock wave therapy on pain, disability, functional status, and depression in patients with chronic low back pain.Turkish journal of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- A Comparison of the Effect of a 4.4-MHz Radiofrequency Deep Heating Therapy and Ultrasound on Low Back Pain: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Effect of interferential current on deep abdominal muscle thickness.Journal of physical therapy science · 2022Article
- A Review of Laser Therapy and Low-Intensity Ultrasound for Chronic Pain States.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- Effectiveness of Ultrasound Therapy on the Management of Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review.Journal of pain research · 2021Review
- Effects of High - Intensity Laser in Treatment of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
- Does a Better Perfusion of Deconditioned Muscle Tissue Release Chronic Low Back Pain?Frontiers in medicine · 2018Article
- Evaluation of vitamin D levels in patients with chronic low back-leg pain.Acta orthopaedica et traumatologica turcica · 2017Article
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Abstract
The aim of this trial is to investigate and compare the effects of electrical stimulation (ES) program and ultrasound (US) therapy on pain, disability, trunk muscle strength, walking performance, spinal mobility, quality of life (QOL), and depression in the patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). A total of 59 patients with definite CLBP were enrolled in this study. These patients were randomized into three groups. Group 1 (n = 20) was given an ES program and exercises. Group 2 (n = 19) was given an US treatment and exercises. Group 3 (n = 20) was accepted as the control group and was given only exercises. All of the programs were performed 3 days a week, for 6 weeks. The patients were evaluated according to pain, disability, walking performance, endurance, mobility, QOL, depression. The trunk muscle strength was measured with a hand-held dynamometer. All of the groups showed stastically significant improvements in pain, disability, muscle strength, endurance, walking performance, mobility, sub-scores of SF 36, and depression when compared with their initial status. The intergroup comparison showed significant difference in physical function, energy and social function sub-groups of SF-36, VAS pain, extensor muscle strength, between three groups. This difference was statistically significant in the groups 1 and 2 compared to the control group. There was also no significant difference between the groups 1 and 2. We observed that US treatment and ES treatment were effective in improving pain, isometric extensor muscle strength, and QOL in patients with CLBP.
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