The Role of Core Stability and Core Muscles in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Review of Functional and Clinical Importance

Purpose: Physiotherapy and exercise training are one of the cornerstones in treatment patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). However, although effects programs their superiority over each other have still not been determined, research on this subject is continuing literature day by day. Due to pathophysiology AS, spine most affected areas musculoskeletal system. Therefore, stabilization lumbopelvic region spine, which reference point for core muscles, important management disease.
 In review, involvement muscles stability AS will be discussed.