Effect Of Lumbar Stabilisation Exercises on Pain, Disability and Core Muscle Strength Among Patients with Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain
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Chronic non-specific low back pain, visual analogue scale, Oswestry Disability Index, plank test and lumbar stabilization exercisesAbstract
Chronic non-specific low back pain refers to persistent pain in the lower back that cannot be attributed to a clear, identifiable medical cause like a fracture, tumor or infection, meaning there is no specific pathology explaining the pain. Essentially, its chronic low back pain. Outcome measures commonly used includes visual analogue scale (VAS), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) for Low Back pain and Plank test for evaluating pain, disability and core muscle strength. The main objective of this study is to determine the effect of lumbar stabilisation exercises on pain, disability and core muscle strength among patients with chronic non-specific low back pain. The experimental study was conducted on 60 subjects fulfilling the inclusion criteria. The subjects were divided into two groups. Conventional physiotherapy and lumbar stabilisation exercise with conventional physiotherapy (n=30). Both the groups were received the treatments and outcome was measured in pre and post the treatment. Data is analyzed using SPSS software version 21. The results showed the significant improvement in disability (p=0.002), were the pain and core muscle shows the improvement but its not statistically significant (p<0.133, p<0.293). Both the groups demonstrated improvement after 4 weeks of intervention, but experimental group showed better mean difference and percentage improvement compared to the other group in all the tested variables.
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