Comparison between massage and routine physical therapy in women with sub acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain

Kamali, Fahimeh; Panahi, F; Ebrahimi, Samaneh; Abbasi, Leila

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“…In line with the current study, the results of trials (20,21) indicate that massage is effective in reducing pain and functional disability, as well as improving mobility and psychological well-being, in chronic low back pain, especially if accompanied with exercises (20).…”

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Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

Ibrahim

Akindele

2018

Middle East J Rehabil Health Stud

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Introduction: Sagittal spine malalignment has been linked with a number of health consequences including pain, disability, and suboptimal quality of life. Case Presentation: We present a 19-year-old male with 3 years history of chronic back pain associated with kypholordotic posture. Upon examination, lumbar hyperlordosis and thoracic hyperkyphosis were mainly associated with muscular imbalance around the chest, upper back, and lumbopelvic-hip region. The patient received treatment comprising postural education (PE), therapeutic massage (TM), motor control exercises (MCE), and segmental stretching exercises (SSE) twice a week for 8 weeks. The patient demonstrated a significant improvement in lumbar lordotic (83.80 to 76.30) and thoracic kyphotic (65.20 to 60.60) curves as measured by flexible ruler, back pain (7.0cm to1.0cm) as measured by visual analogue scale, spine ranges of motion (flexion: 5.2cm to 7.5cm; extension: 3.5cm to 4.7cm) as measured by modified Schober's test, and functional disability (46.7% to 20.0%) as measured by modified Oswestry disability index. Conclusions:The results showed that the combination of PE, TM, MCE, and SSE was effective in improving sagittal spine alignment, back pain, spine range of movement, and function.

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Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

Ibrahim

Akindele

2018

Middle East J Rehabil Health Stud

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“…The frequent study of back pain massage probably relates to the high incidence of low back pain as compared to other forms of pain, although carpal tunnel pain and smart thumb syndrome pain are becoming increasingly common. In one study, women with chronic low back pain were randomly assigned to massage therapy or physical therapy groups [41]. Stretching exercises were added to both the massage therapy and the physical therapy.…”

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Massage therapy research review

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Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice

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In this review, massage therapy has been shown to have beneficial effects on varying conditions including prenatal depression, preterm infants, full-term infants, autism, skin conditions, pain syndromes including arthritis and fibromyalgia, hypertension, autoimmune conditions including asthma and multiple sclerosis, immune conditions including HIV and breast cancer and aging problems including Parkinson's and dementia. Although many of the studies have involved comparisons between massage therapy and standard treatment control groups, several have compared different forms of massage (e.g. Swedish versus Thai massage), and different active therapies such as massage versus exercise. Typically, the massage therapy groups have experienced more positive effects than the control or comparison groups. This may relate to the massage therapy providing more stimulation of pressure receptors, in turn enhancing vagal activity and reducing Cortisol levels. Some of the researchers have assessed physical, physiological and biochemical effects, although most have relied exclusively on self-report measures. Despite these methodological problems and the dearth of research from the U.S., the massage therapy profession has grown significantly and massage therapy is increasingly practiced in traditional medical settings, highlighting the need for more rigorous research.

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“…Th ere is a strong evidence about the eff ectiveness of therapeutic exercises for patients with LBP, some authors reported that therapeutic exercises are very eff ective for back fl exibility, pain management and improvement of ability in daily life activities (Hayden, Tulder, & Tomlinson, 2005) (Garcia et al, 2013;Dunsford, Kumar, & Clarke, 2011;Kamali, Panahi, Ebrahimi, & Abbasi, 2014. According our survey we can conclude that is strong evidence about the eff ectiveness of deep tissue massage for patients with low back pain regarding the pain and mobility, although the evidence showed that is very little confi dence that massage is an eff ective treatment for chronic LBP (Farber & Wieland, 2016). But when massage is combined with therapeutic exercises and modalities showed to be very eff ective treatment for patients with chronic LBP (Bervoets, Lujisterburg, Alessie, & Bujis, 2015;Cherkin et al, 2011).…”

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The Effect of Physical Therapy in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

Gashi¹,

Azemi²

2019

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Low back pain is the most common cause of disability. Epidemiological studies have generally considered that risk factors for starting backache are interrelated in three dimensions: individual factors and lifestyle, physical or biomechanical factors, and psychosocial factors. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effi cacy of physical therapy in patients with chronic non-specifi c low back pain. This retrospective study was conducted at the Diagnostic Therapeutic Center Rezonanca, Department of Physiotherapy in Prishtina, Kosovo, during the period January-March 2017. Analyzed data were collected from year 2015-2016, included physiotherapeutic reports of patients of both sexes, Lasegue's test and improvement of the patients after 10 sessions of physical therapy treatment. The main criteria for inclusion in the research was chronic non-specifi c low back pain with a duration of more than 6 months. According our results we found statistical signifi cance diff erence regarding the overall condition of treatment from the total number of patients (t=2.004, p<0.05). Based on this research we can conclude that physical therapy is highly eff ective treatment in reducing chronic non-specifi c low back pain.

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Comparison between massage and routine physical therapy in women with sub acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain

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Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

Massage therapy research review

The Effect of Physical Therapy in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

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