Neuromuscular exercise reduces low back pain intensity and improves physical functioning in nursing duties among female healthcare workers; secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low back pain (LBP) is common among healthcare workers, whose work is physically strenuous and thus demands certain levels of physical fitness and spinal control. Exercise is the most frequently recommended treatment for LBP. However, exercise interventions targeted at sub-acute or recurrent patients are scarce compared to those targeted at chronic LBP patients. Our objective was to examine the effects of 6 months of neuromuscular exercise on pain, lumbar movement control, fitness, and work-related factors at 6- and 12-months' follow-up among female healthcare personnel with sub-acute or recurrent low back pain (LBP) and physically demanding work.

Methods

A total of 219 healthcare workers aged 30-55 years with non-specific LBP were originally allocated to four gro

SUBMITTER: Taulaniemi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6626624 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature