People have always been infatuated with abdominal exercises. Not only amongst the fitness elite, but even sedentary people want a flatter tummy! Whether it is for cosmetic purposes or to protect against back pain abdominal exercises have probably drawn more attention than any other exercises. One abdominal exercise in particular, the sit-up, has become the most famous. Unfortunately, with all t...

The efficacy of physical exercise for the prevention and treatment of non-specific low back pain (LBP) is well documented, but little is known about how individuals value specific components of physical exercise, such as the type and design or the intensity and frequency of exercise. Other factors that influence individual differences in health choices and adherence are associated with individu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate effectiveness of an exercise programme in a community setting for patients with low back pain to encourage a return to normal activities. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial of progressive exercise programme compared with usual primary care management. Patients' preferences for type of management were elicited independently of randomisation. PARTICIPANTS 187 patients ag...

BACKGROUND Cervical and lumbar range of motion limitations are usually associated with musculoskeletal pain in the neck and lower back, and are a major health problem among nurses. Physical exercise has been evaluated as an effective intervention method for improving cervical and lumbar range of motion, and for preventing and reducing musculoskeletal pain. The purpose of this study was to inves...

To study the effect of trunk muscles stabilization exercises and general exercises on pain on recurrent non specific low back ache. A total number of 80 patients with recurrent non specific low back pain are allocated randomly into 1 of 2 groups; control group received general exercise only (n=40) and experimental group received specific stabilization (n=40). Both groups received 6 weeks exerci...

STUDY DESIGN A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of segmental stabilizing exercises for acute, subacute and chronic low back pain with regard to pain, recurrence of pain, disability and return to work. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, PEDro and article reference lists were searched from 1988 onwar...

the subjective of this study was to explore and compare the effects of whole body vibration (wbv) and conventional spinal stabilization exercises on persons with non-specific chronic low back pain (clbp). thirty patients with non-specific chronic low back pain randomly received 6 sessions of spinal stabilization therapy with and without whole body vibration over 2 weeks. the severity of pain, f...