Aquatic and Land Exercises in Chronic Low Back Pain

Baskent University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain

Treatments: Other: exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04378413

62310886-600

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aquatic and Land Exercises on Chronic Low Back Pain

Full description

The Effect of Aquatic and Land Exercises on Pain, Health Related Quality of Life, Kinesiophobia and Disability in Chronic Low Back Pain

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients had to be diagnosed with clinical examination and radiological findings of low back pain from at least 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• acute pain

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

The Effect of Aquatic Exercises on Pain, quality of life

Experimental group

Description:

Water-based exercise program was conducted in the second group of 15 patients in an indoor swimming pool. Temperature of mineral water was 36 °C. The program included warming up by walking forwards, sideways and backwards through the water in the pool; active range of motion of the joints of the lower extremities; stretching lower extremities; strengthening exercises for hips, knees, arms, elbows and wrists; and cooling down (slow walking, squatting and standing).

Treatment:

Other: exercise

The Effect of Land Exercises on Pain, Quality of life

Experimental group

Description:

Land-based exercise program included abdominal and back strengthening exercises.

Treatment:

Other: exercise