BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines recommend research on sub-groups of patients with low back pain (LBP) but, to date, only few studies have been published. One sub-group of LBP is movement control impairment (MCI) and clinical tests to identify this sub-group have been developed. Also, exercises appear to be beneficial for the management of chronic LBP (CLBP), but very little is known about the ma...

People who work at construction sites have one of the highest incidences of low back pain (LBP). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the status of LBP, and to investigate the risk factors of LBP in construction workers. The subjects were 33, 530 workers who were sent our questionnaires in September and October 1996. Of the final respondents, 29.3% had LBP. The results of multi-regression a...

OBJECTIVE Women commonly experience low back pain during pregnancy. We examined whether a multimodal approach of musculoskeletal and obstetric management (MOM) was superior to standard obstetric care to reduce pain, impairment, and disability in the antepartum period. STUDY DESIGN A prospective, randomized trial of 169 women was conducted. Baseline evaluation occurred at 24-28 weeks' gestatio...

Materials and Methods: Thirty male patients who had nonspecific chronic low back pain were randomly assigned to either core stability training or dynamic strength training for 8 weeks. Peak torque of trunk flexors and extensors were evaluated using the Biodex Isokinetic System; and endurance time for flexors, extensors, and lateral trunk musculatures were evaluated through McGill’s core enduran...

The objectives of this study were to compare the effects of three different Pilates regimes on chronic, mild low back pain symptoms and to determine whether the efficiency of load transfer through the pelvis is improved by those exercises. A between subjects equivalent group experimental design was used. The independent variable was the type of exercise training (three groups) and the two-depen...

SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The incidence of chronic pain is higher among immigrants in Europe than among the native European population. Therapeutic interventions in this population are far less effective than in patients for whom these programmes were originally developed. OBJECTIVES In a randomised trial, we investigated whether a cognitive behavioural treatment (CBT) programme supplemented...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the effects of a high load lifting exercise with low load motor control exercises on pain intensity, disability and health-related quality of life for patients with mechanical low back pain. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial. SUBJECTS Patients with mechanical low back pain as their dominating pain mechanism. METHODS The intervention progra...

STUDY DESIGN A randomized clinical trial with blinded assessment. OBJECTIVES To investigate the clinical efficacy of 2 active interventions for patients with chronic low back pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Manual therapy and exercise prescription are treatments frequently prescribed for patients with chronic low back pain. The evidence for the relative benefit of these treatments is limit...

STUDY DESIGN A randomized controlled trial, prestest-posttest design, with a 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up. OBJECTIVES To investigate the efficacy of a therapeutic exercise approach in a population with chronic low back pain (LBP). BACKGROUND Therapeutic approaches developed from the Pilates method are becoming increasingly popular; however, there have been no reports on their efficacy. ...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review the available evidence on the efficacy of the Pilates method in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain. METHOD Searches were performed in MEDLINE, EMBASE, PEDro, SciELO, LILACS, CINAHL and CENTRAL in March 2013. Randomized controlled trials that tested the effectiveness of the Pilates method (against a nontreatment group, minimal intervention or oth...