Segmental stabilization and muscular strengthening in chronic low back pain: a comparative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To contrast the efficacy of two exercise programs, segmental stabilization and strengthening of abdominal and trunk muscles, on pain, functional disability, and activation of the transversus abdominis muscle (TrA), in individuals with chronic low back pain.

Design

Our sample consisted of 30 individuals, randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: segmental stabilization, where exercises focused on the TrA and lumbar multifidus muscles, and superficial strengthening, where exercises focused on the rectus abdominis, abdominus obliquus internus, abdominus obliquus externus, and erector spinae. Groups were examined to discovere whether the exercises created contrasts regarding pain (visual analogical scale and McGill pain questionnaire), functional disability (Os

SUBMITTER: Franca FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2972594 | biostudies-literature | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature