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Dynamic Sitting Exercise versus Spinal Extension Exercise on Pain, Lumbar Mobility and Quality of Life in Adults with Mechanical Low Back Pain


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1 MPT in Department of Musculoskeletal and Sports, India
2 The Oxford College of Physiotherapy, Begur Road, Hongasandra, Bangalore, India
     

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Background: Now-a-days it is seen that busy work schedule and unhealthy environment leads to discontinuity in exercising despite of awareness and knowledge of its effectiveness on problems like low back pain. There are many factors including improper posture, over loading, immobility, trunk muscles weakness leads to mechanical low back pain in adults. Exercises of various types have been used in managing low back pain. Hence there is a need to find out a single functional and effective exercise for such problems so that they can be done anytime during work and without any equipment which is also economical.

Methodology: Thirty adults aged between 20-30 years participated in this comparative experimental study. After underwent physical screening for selection criteria mechanical low back pain followed by simple randomization participants were divided into group A and group B. Group A and group B received dynamic sitting and spinal extension exercise respectively for thrice a week for six weeks. Pre and post values were assessed using outcome measures Visual Analog Scale for pain, MMST used for lumbar mobility and Short Form-36 Health Survey Questionnaire for quality of life.

Results: In comparison of post test scores of outcome measures evidenced that the reduction of pain score, improvement in lumbar mobility and quality of life scores. There were significantly improvement among the adults with mechanical low back pain treated with Dynamic sitting exercise (DSE) than treated with Spinal extension exercise (SEE).

Conclusion: 6 weeks of dynamic sitting and spinal extension exercise can prevent in pain and improvement in lumbar mobility and quality of life in adults with mechanical low back pain.


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Mechanical Low Back Pain, Dynamic Sitting Exercise, Spinal Extension Exercise, Lumbar Mobility, Quality of Life.
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Dibyadarshini Das
MPT in Department of Musculoskeletal and Sports, India
R. Venkatesan
The Oxford College of Physiotherapy, Begur Road, Hongasandra, Bangalore, India

Abstract


Background: Now-a-days it is seen that busy work schedule and unhealthy environment leads to discontinuity in exercising despite of awareness and knowledge of its effectiveness on problems like low back pain. There are many factors including improper posture, over loading, immobility, trunk muscles weakness leads to mechanical low back pain in adults. Exercises of various types have been used in managing low back pain. Hence there is a need to find out a single functional and effective exercise for such problems so that they can be done anytime during work and without any equipment which is also economical.

Methodology: Thirty adults aged between 20-30 years participated in this comparative experimental study. After underwent physical screening for selection criteria mechanical low back pain followed by simple randomization participants were divided into group A and group B. Group A and group B received dynamic sitting and spinal extension exercise respectively for thrice a week for six weeks. Pre and post values were assessed using outcome measures Visual Analog Scale for pain, MMST used for lumbar mobility and Short Form-36 Health Survey Questionnaire for quality of life.

Results: In comparison of post test scores of outcome measures evidenced that the reduction of pain score, improvement in lumbar mobility and quality of life scores. There were significantly improvement among the adults with mechanical low back pain treated with Dynamic sitting exercise (DSE) than treated with Spinal extension exercise (SEE).

Conclusion: 6 weeks of dynamic sitting and spinal extension exercise can prevent in pain and improvement in lumbar mobility and quality of life in adults with mechanical low back pain.


Keywords


Mechanical Low Back Pain, Dynamic Sitting Exercise, Spinal Extension Exercise, Lumbar Mobility, Quality of Life.

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