Comparison of 3 Physical Therapy Modalities For Acute Pain in Lumbar Disc Herniation Measured by Clinical Evaluation and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

How is recovery from low back pain measured? A systematic review of the literature

“…isokinetic muscle test [4]). Nineteen measures were described in a vague or uninformative manner that would preclude replication [6,11,26,31,33,43,49,59,70,74,81,87,93,95,100]. Seventeen studies used a minimum level of pain or 'symptoms' as a proxy for recovery; however, no two studies did so in exactly the same way (Table 1).…”

“…Administrative data were used in four studies; two used return to work as the criterion [34,35,91], and two used time to insurance claim closure [14,34,35], and one further study used a self-rating of return to work [44] ( Table 4). Six studies measured physical performance or absence of neurological deficits [4,11,29,47,74,95], however in only three of these studies [4,29,47] was the test clearly described. Another aspect of recovery that varied widely among included studies is the duration for which patients had to meet the recovery criteria to be regarded as recovered.…”

The effects of the number of physical therapy sessions on pain, disability,and quality of life in patients with chronic low back pain

“…They applied LLLT to the 1st group, US to the 2nd group, and traction therapy to the 3rd group for 15 sessions. As a result of this study, they reported that US was as efficient as the other agents in the treatment of LBP (13). In another study investigating the efficacy of US, Durmuş et al included 42 patients with chronic LBP in their study.…”

“…The US treatment that we used in the scope of our study, as deep heating, may be used alone or additionally to other PT modalities, similarly to the literature reports (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19).…”

“…There have been numerous studies comparing the efficacy of different PT modalities for the treatment of chronic LBP to date (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19). We could not find any studies in the literature aiming to detect the efficacy of different numbers of sessions with the same treatment modalities.…”