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Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2017

A random-perturbation therapy in chronic non-specific low-back pain patients: a randomised controlled trial.

Adamantios Arampatzis, Arno Schroll, Maria Moreno Catalá, Gunnar Laube, Sabine Schüler, Karsten Dreinhofer

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06156163 (Effectiveness of Perturbation Training in Nonspecific Low Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06156163 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Effectiveness of Perturbation Training in Nonspecific Low Back Pain

TypeinterventionalSponsorIstanbul Arel UniversityRan2023 to 2024Enrolled44ConditionsLow Back PainArmsPerturbation training, Exercise
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advances in physiotherapy for chronic low-back pain: a level I systematic review.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2026
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  5. Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Adamantios ArampatzisDepartment of Training and Movement Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13, Haus 11, 10115, Berlin, Germany. a.arampatzis@hu-berlin.de.
Arno SchrollDepartment of Training and Movement Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13, Haus 11, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
Maria Moreno CataláDepartment of Training and Movement Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13, Haus 11, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
Gunnar LaubeDepartment of Training and Movement Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13, Haus 11, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
Sabine SchülerMedical Park Berlin Humboldtmühle, Berlin, Germany.
Karsten DreinhoferMedical Park Berlin Humboldtmühle, Berlin, Germany.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DE

Funding

Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft 080102A/11-14
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of a specific rehabilitation therapy for chronic non-specific low-back pain patients, based on a random/irregular functional perturbation training induced by force disturbances to the spine. Forty patients (20 controls and 20 in the perturbation-based group) finished the whole experimental design. A random-perturbation exercise, which included variable and unpredictable disturbances, was implemented in the therapy of the perturbation-based group (13 weeks, two times per week and 1.5 h per session). The participants of the control group did not receive any specific training. Low-back pain, muscle strength, and neuromuscular control of spine stability were investigated before and after the therapy using the visual analog scale, maximal isometric and isokinetic contractions, nonlinear time series analysis, and by determining the stiffness and damping of the trunk after sudden perturbations. The perturbation-based therapy reduced patient's low-back pain (35%), increased muscle strength (15-22%), and trunk stiffness (13%), while no significant changes were observed in the control group. It can be concluded that the proposed therapy has the potential to enhance trunk muscle capability as well as sensory information processing within the motor system during sudden loading and, as a consequence, improve the stabilization of the trunk.

Indexed as

AdultBack PainExercise TherapyFemaleHumansIsometric ContractionMaleMuscle StrengthNeurological RehabilitationMiSpExNeuromuscular controlNoise-based therapyNonlinear time series analysisQuick releaseTrunk muscle strength

Identifiers

PMID29052033
OpenAlexW2766997856

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