background: chronic non-specific low back pain is a common disorder that often has no clear mechanism. exercise therapy is an effective and safe method for treatment of chronic musculoskeletal disorders such as back pain. pilate’s and williams’ exercises are two types of distinct exercises used for the treatment of back pain, but there is no evidence for the advantage of these two exercises in ...

background: about 70% of all pregnant women suffer from pelvic girdle pain (pgp)and/or low and high back pain(lbp,hbp). the risk factors for developing pelvic girdle pain and back pain in general are history of previous low back pain or pelvic or pain in previous pregnancy. in order to study the relative frequency of different kinds of backache in pregnancy and possible risk factors for develop...

Objectives: Low back pain is one of the main health problems which affect many people worldwide. The daily course of life is highly disrupted due to the chronic back pain problem. This study aims to explore the occupational performance of individuals with chronic low back pain. Methods: Fifteen people with chronic low back pain were included in this study using purposeful s...

introduction: many factors are related to the disability of subjects with chronic low back pain. fear-avoidance of injury and movement are the most important risk factors to increase the disability followed by decreased physical activity in these patients. the aim of current study was to compare the level of disability and fear-avoidance between two groups of low back pain patients with and wit...

results no significant difference was observed between the two groups in terms of chronic low back pain; frequency of low back pain in clinical staff was 18% (18 individuals) and in office staff this was 17% (17 individuals) (p < 0.05). chronic low back pain in the clinical group might be related to flexion and extension, twisting, pulling or pushing, carrying, handling of patients, and sitting...

background:: this study aimed to quantify the prevalence of low back pain (lbp), analyze its associated risk factors and explore on how lbp affects job satisfaction among 120 school teachers in malaysia. method: a cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected teachers from four secondary schools in putrajaya from february to march 2015. the level of lbp was assessed using a standa...

background: excessive lumbar vertebrae translation and rotation in sagittal plane has been attributed as an associated factor of lumbar segmental instability (lsi) and low back pain (lbp). reduction of these abnormalities improves back pain. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of core stability exercise on the translation and rotation of lumbar vertebrae in sagittal plane in pat...

musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) are of serious concern to many organizations, including health care centres. low back pain (lbp) with no clinical cause is common in nurses. this study aimed to assess the prevalence rate of lbp in nurses. this descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on a population of 351 nurses from educational hospitals of yazd university of medical sciences; yazd...