The effect of central stability exercises and cognitive tasks compared to general exercises and cognitive tasks on pain, disability and postural control of people with non-specific chronic low back pain.

Determining the effect of core stability exercises and cognitive tasks compared to general exercises and cognitive tasks on pain, disability and postural control of people with non-specific chronic low back pain.

Two-arm parallel-group randomized control trial, single-blind (assessor), Randomization using random blocks method was used for randomization on 34 patients with non-specific chronic back pain, Rand function of Excel software.

In many clinical guidelines, exercise therapy is a recommended treatment for low back pain. First, the assessment of the pain intensity and the disability level, as well as postural control using the force plate device, the quality of life, the fear of movement, and the fear-avoidance beliefs, in people with Chronic non-specific back pain will be done in the movement analysis laboratory of the rehabilitation faculty of the Iran University. Finally, the participants will go to the physiotherapy clinic of the rehabilitation faculty of Iran University and will be randomly divided into two groups and will be treated for 16 sessions (3 days a week). At the end of the treatment, the above evaluations will be done again. This study is single-blind (blinding of the assessor).

Non-specific chronic low back pain that has lasted at least 3 months since its onset Pain score of 3 or more on a visual analog scale Not having radicular pain and any neurological symptoms Uncorrected vision impairment Hearing problems Vestibular dysfunctions Previous spinal surgery

Experimental group: core stability exercises with cognitive tasks Control group: general exercises with cognitive tasks

1- Visual analog scale: Questionnaire evaluating pain intensity. Range from 0-10. 2- Oswestry Disability Index: Questionnaire evaluating the level of disability. Range from 0-100

Random allocation will be done by the method of variable blocks, which will include four-letter blocks consisting of letters A and B. After that, according to the fact that 34 people are needed in the study and the blocks are four components, 9 random numbers will be prepared, which will determine the arrangement of the four component blocks. Then, the random treatment list will be placed in sealed and numbered envelopes in the form of letters A and B. Letter A will represent CSE exercises with cognitive task and letter B will represent GE exercises with cognitive task. Then, an envelope will be assigned to each patient in the order of entering the study and his group will be determined.

In this study, due to the dissimilarity of the treatment and control groups, there is no possibility of blinding the participants and the therapist. Therefore, in the present study, only for objective evaluations, including assessment of postural stability and postural control strategies, the blinding of the evaluator will be done with respect to the grouping of the subjects under study.

Effects of Core Stability Exercises and Cognitive Tasks on Chronic Non-specific Back Pain

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