Back Pain clinical trials at UCSD

4 in progress, 1 open to eligible people

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  • Rehabilitation Program in Individuals with Spine Pain

    open to eligible people ages 18-89

    SpineZone is an innovative physical therapy program with its focus on treatment of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar conditions through the use of a multi-disciplinary, technology enabled platform. Standard physical therapy modalities including psychologically informed physical therapy are employed in addition to online coaching with a fundamental tenant of core strengthening. Treatments are tracked and modified in a multi-disciplinary format taking all radiographic studies into direct consideration. The goal of this study is to utilize a registry of participants undergoing either in-clinic or online rehabilitation treatment for spine pain at the SpineZone clinical in order to understand the clinical outcomes and costs of different rehabilitation modalities in this patient population.

    San Diego, California

  • Durability of Yoga for Veterans With Low Back Pain

    Sorry, not yet accepting patients

    Chronic low back pain is a prevalent condition among VA patients, but many current treatment options have side effects or limited effectiveness. Veterans with chronic low back pain (cLBP) experience increased disability, functional challenges, and reduced quality of life. A prior VA funded study of Yoga for VA patients with cLBP found that yoga can reduce pain and disability at 3 and 6 months after enrollment. However, the long-term effects and maintenance of yoga practice is unknown. The current study will test an intervention designed to promote long-term yoga practice and long-term health outcome benefits at 12 and 18 months after enrollment.

    San Diego, California

  • Influence of a Protein Nutrition Beverage on Exercise-based Rehabilitation Outcomes in Individuals with Spine Pain.

    Sorry, currently not accepting new patients, but might later

    SpineZone is an innovative physical therapy program with its focus on treatment of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar conditions through the use of a multi-disciplinary, technology enabled platform. Standard physical therapy modalities including exercise-based rehabilitation as well as patient education on a healthy lifestyle (sleep, nutrition, posture) are employed as part of the standard treatment. As nutrition is a key element in modulating muscle growth and function in response to exercise, providing patients with appropriate access to nutritional supplements that meet the metabolic demands of our exercise program are potentially important to our clinical outcomes.

    San Diego, California

  • Neural Control and Mechanosensation in Spine Muscle

    Sorry, not yet accepting patients

    Low back pain (LBP) is a condition that affects a majority of the US population and is responsible for a significant proportion of health care costs and utilization. Lumbar spine muscle is compromised in LBP, and do, and do not, respond to exercise based physical therapy program depending on measurements representing activation capacity of lumbar muscle. Here, we will characterize the neurological and muscle specific features that may contribute to limited activation in an attempt to identify sources of resistance to recovery in patients with chronic disc injury and identify precision rehabilitation approaches for this complex population of individuals.

    La Jolla, California

Our lead scientists for Back Pain research studies include .

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