Summary of findings
diabetes, low back pain, hypertension
DIABETES, SAID, DISEASES, HYPERTENSION
To our knowledge, this is the first powered RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of adding PE to MCE compared with either therapy alone among community-dwelling adults with CLBP in a rural Nigerian or African context. The population of this study can be said to be a true representative of rural Nigerian dwellers as the majority of them were non-literates in formal education, practicing peasant or subsistence farming and suffering from long term low back pain. Additionally, fewer of them had hypertension and diabetes comorbidities, which are considered the most prevalent non-communicable diseases (31% and 5.7% for hypertension and diabetes respectively) in Nigeria [