Supervised group exercises in a public pool as a method of chronic musculo-skeletal pain management

ISRCTN	ISRCTN62210644
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN62210644
Protocol serial number	N0620129098
Sponsor	Department of Health
Funder	Exeter Primary Care Trust (UK), NHS R&D Support Funding

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Ms Gill Drake
Scientific

Department of Physiotherapy
Franklin Hospital
Exeter
EX2 9HS
United Kingdom

Primary study design	Interventional
Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Scientific title
Study objectives	The project aims to demonstrate that people with chronic musculo-skeletal pain benefit from group exercises in a social setting in terms of pain relief, reduced disability, improved general well being and ability to cope with symptoms.
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Musculoskeletal Diseases: Chronic musculo-skeletal pain
Intervention	The project intends to randomly allocate patients referred by their GP for physiotherapy to a treatment group and a control group. The control group will wait three months before the water exercise sessions. The treatment group will be invited to the exercise sessions with no delay. As this is a pragmatic study, patients in both groups will be able to continue drug and other treatments as their GP/others suggest.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure(s)	Measures will be taken at 3 months to compare control with treatment and again at 6 months to compare both treatment groups. Measures will be Oswestry Disability Index, SF 36, a visual analogue scale for pain, a pain self efficacy questionnaire and a patient satisfaction questionnaire. Questionnaires will be distributed by the physiotherapist at baseline and by post at 3 and 6 months.
Key secondary outcome measure(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Completion date	31/07/2005

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Lower age limit	18 Years
Sex	Not Specified
Target sample size at registration	150
Key inclusion criteria	150 subjects minimum age 18, no upper age limit
Key exclusion criteria	Not provided at time of registration
Date of first enrolment	07/07/2003
Date of final enrolment	31/07/2005

Department of Physiotherapy

Exeter
EX2 9HS
United Kingdom

Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
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