Estimation of Effectiveness Physiotherapy in Low Back Pain Using Healing Massage and Iontophoresis
Journal Title: Issues of Rehabilitation, Orthopaedics, Neurophysiology and Sport Promotion-IRONS - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
introduction. Pain in lumbo-sacral spine appears more often than in cervical or thoracic spine. In the modern world associated with the social facilitation and hard daily work, lack of physical activity, stress and haste, this pain adversely affects the locomotor system. This leads to acceleration of the degeneration in spinal elements and, consequently, to the overloading disease and the related degenerative changes. Treatment depends on the advancement and duration of the disease, age, coexisting diseases and it is usually a complex process. The most frequently are used the non-invasive treatments like physicotherapy, kinesiotherapy, massage and manual therapy. aim. The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of iontophoresis and therapeutic massage as a pain treatment methods used for patients with back pain in the lumbar-sacral spine. materials and methods. The study included 30 patients aged from 21 to 74 years, treated because of lumbar back pain in Non-public Health Care “Spondylus’’ in Szczecin, Poland. The number of women was 19 and for men 11. On the basis of research and medical opinion, patients were divided into two groups. Group A included 21 people patients with chronic back pain, and a population of 9 patients from group B was treated bacause of acute back pain. results. Taking into account the results of the study it should be noted that iontophoresis and therapeutic massage ahowed an analgesic effect in patients with pain in the lumbo-sacral spine. Conclusion. The subjective evaluation of the pain was performed with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and its intensity scale was reduced in patients. The results suggested that patients with chronic pain from group A more often apply the prophylactic therapy than patients with acute pain (group B).
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Marta Ładniak, Ewa Gajewska
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