1. A tool to improve functional outcome assessment of a multimodal program for patients with chronic low back pain: A study on walk tests (at comfortable and fast speed)
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Jean-Marie Casillas, Alexandre Naaim, Davy Laroche, Mickael Grelat, Anaïs Gouteron, and Delphine Trampe
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Adult ,Male ,030506 rehabilitation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Walk Test ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Walking ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Back pain ,Humans ,Medicine ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Physical Therapy Modalities ,Pain Measurement ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,030229 sport sciences ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Confidence interval ,Walking Speed ,Test (assessment) ,Chronic low back pain ,Preferred walking speed ,Treatment Outcome ,Walk test ,Radicular pain ,Physical therapy ,Female ,Chronic Pain ,medicine.symptom ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Low Back Pain - Abstract
Background Tools for functional assessment of chronic low back pain (LBP) are lacking. Objective To determine the correlations and the responsiveness of the 400 m comfortable walk test (400 mCWT) and the 200 m fast-walk test (200 mFWT) in the functional assessment of a multimodal program. Methods One hundred and twenty-seven participants (68 females) with LBP and with or without radicular pain completed a Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale, a Sorensen test, a Shirado test, a 400 mCWT and a 200 mFWT, at baseline and at the end of the program. Results No significant side effect was reported during walk tests. Walking speed was significantly increased after the program (0.18 ± 0.15 m.s-1 for the 400 mCWT and 0.17 ± 0.17 m.s-1 for the 200 mFWT). Clinical parameters were also significantly improved (82.02 ± 83.1 seconds for the Shirado, 92.1 ± 100.1 seconds for the Sorensen, -14.0 ± 12.9 for the Quebec scale). A significant relationship was found between the increase in walking speed for the two walk tests and the improvement of the Quebec scale. The gait speed improvement was close to the minimal clinically important change (95% confidence interval: 0.14-0.22) determined from the Quebec scale threshold (minimum detectable change). Conclusions Both 400 mCWT and 200 mFWT are correlated with functional parameters and are responsive for the functional assessment of LBP.
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- 2020
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