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Articles - Lower Back - Lumbar Spine
Lower back/Lumbar spine
- A clinical rule for lumbar manipulation
This article demonstrates that the use of a clinical prediction rule can predict which patients with lower back pain will benefit from manipulation. This will help to ensure that the treatment that you recieve here will be as beneficial as possible, by using the latest evidence to help guide our treatment decisions.
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- Bed rest does not reduce low back pain intensity or sciatica.
This systematic review shows that bed rest does not appear to have any positive effect on low back pain intensity and may even have a negative effect on the low back. Therapists need to be aware of when educating patients on bed rest. It is also important for patients to be aware of so that they can be thoroughly informed when deciding on whether or not to choose bed rest as a treatment for acute low back pain and sciatica.
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- Daily spinal loading as a risk factor for low back pain
This study shows that increased loading of the spine in the flexed (bent forward) position is associated with acute low back pain. The longer you are bending forward for the more likely you are to get a sore back.
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- Gynecologic surgery and low back pain
Physiotherapy may be indicated post gynecologic surgery to strengthen abdominal and pelvic muscles to prevent possible future low back pain.
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- Loading of the lumbar spine during bending
The load on the spine increases as a healthy individual bends forward. The load increases by a greater amount if weight is added to the individual eg. if they are holding something.
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- Low back pain and Endometriosis
Endometriosis is a diagnosis that should be considered with young women who experience low back pain.
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- Manipulation and outcome for patients with low back pain.
This study shows that patients who have their lower back manipulated are not more likely to have reduced low back pain or lumbopelvic range of movement.
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- Stabilizing exercises reduce long-term effects of low back pain.
This research shows that rehabilitating the multifidus and transversus abdominis (core stabilisers) after an episode of low back pain may reduce low back pain recurrence.
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- Trunk strengthening for people with chronic low back pain Neck/Cervical Spine
Trunk strengthening is effective for reducing pain and improving function in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain and after lumbar disc surgery. More intensive programmes and those that include motivational strategies appear to be of greater benefit than less intensive.
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