Recruiting

Active Music-based Intervention

Sponsor:

Sharon Wang-Price

Code:

NCT06940063

Conditions

Chronic Low Back Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Active music-based intervention

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if active music-based intervention works to treat patients with chronic low back pain. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does active music-based intervention improve cognitive function?
2. Does active music -based intervention improve sensitivity to stimuli?
3. Does active music-based intervention improve pain catastrophizing behavior?
4. Does active music-based intervention improve quality of life?

Participant will visit the clinic for 5 sessions of assessments and active music-based intervention over 2 weeks. On the first visit, it will take each participant 45 minutes to complete the pre-intervention assessments followed by a 45-minute active music-based intervention. The active music-based intervention will last about an hour for the remaining 4 visits. On the 5th or last visit, after the one-hour intervention, it will take another 30 minutes for each participant to complete the post-intervention assessments.

Conditions

Chronic Low Back Pain

Study ID

NCT06940063

Start date

Aug 7, 2025

Status verified date

Jan, 2026

Completion date

Mar 31, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 31, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • adults 18-65 years of age
  • have chronic low back pain (CLBP) primarily in the L4-5 area. The CLBP is defined as a back pain problem that has persisted at least 3 months and has resulted in pain on at least half the days in the past 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

Participants will be excluded if their low back pain (LBP) is due to a non-musculoskeletal origin or they have any medical conditions that may affect the results:

  • Previous back surgery
  • Systemic arthritis (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis).
  • Fracture of thoracic and lumbar spine, pelvis
  • Infection
  • Tumor
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Stroke
  • Seizures/epilepsy
  • Any other neurological disease (e.g., multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, - Parkinson's)
  • Circulation/vascular problems (e.g., Raynaud's)
  • Cancer
  • Uncontrolled diabetes/high blood sugar
  • Currently pregnant

Study Design

Enrollment

40 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Active music-based in tervention

Active musical interventions include playing an instrument, singing, or songwriting.

Interventions

Active music-based intervention

Musical experience includes playing an instrument, singing, or songwriting.

Primary outcome measure

  • Cognitive function [ Time Frame: This outcome measure (SCWT) will be administered twice, before the start of treatment and after the end of treatment at 2 weeks. ]
  • Cognitive function [ Time Frame: This outcome measure (CTMT2) will be administered twice, before the start of treatment and after the end of treatment at 2 weeks. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sharon Wang-Price, PhD

1 214-689-7725swang@twu.edu

Della Molloy-Daugherty, PhD

1 940-898-2491swang@twu.edu

Locations

Texas Woman's University, Department of Music

Recruiting

Denton, Texas, United States, 76204

Contacts

Della Molloy-Daugherty, PhD

214-898-2491dmolloydaugherty@twu.edu

Sharon Wang-Price, PhD

214-689-7715swang@twu.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Sharon Wang-Price

Last update posted

Jan 9, 2026

Last verified

Jan, 2026

Keywords

  • Music therapy
  • Central sensitization
  • chronic low back pain
  • cognitive function

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Sharon Wang-Price on 2026-01-09.