The Efficacy of Active Rehabilitation in Chronic Low Back Pain

1999248 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Markku Kankaanpää · Kuopio University Hospital

Olavi Airaksinen · Kuopio University Hospital

Osmo Hänninen · University of Eastern Finland

Abstract

The active progressive treatment program was more successful in reducing pain and self-experienced disability and also in improving lumbar endurance than was the passive control treatment. However, the group difference in lumbar endurance tended to diminish at the 1-year follow-up.

Topics & Keywords

Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Spine

Volume 24, Issue 10, pp. 1034-1042

DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199905150-00019

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