A Pilot Study of Motor Control Exercise and Patient Education for the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain in Rural Nigerian Community.

This study will determine whether supervised exercise training emphasizing motor control exercise (MCE) approach and a designed patient education (PE) program based on the psychosocial approach will be feasible and acceptable in reducing pain intensity and functional disability among rural dwellers with CLBP in Nigeria. Participants will be recruited and assigned to one of three intervention groups that include MCE group, PE group, or MCE plus PE gr using a simple random technique based on an electronic randomization table generated by a computer software program. Blinded assessment of all clinical outcomes will be performed at baseline and 6 weeks after randomization. Primary outcomes include pain intensity and functional disability while secondary outcomes include overall treatment satisfaction. Data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired t-test, and ANOVA. All statistical analyses will be performed on SPSS (version 24.00) at an alpha level of 0.05.