Exercise for the Management of Back Pain

Total number of Non- Sham treatment Pain Tai chi (low SOE) and RCTs was NR pharmacologic Wait list Function yoga (moderate SOE) Patients with therapies Usual care are effective for chronic acute or chronic (including Other therapies low back pain nonradicular or various Evidence supported the radicular low exercises) use of exercise and back pain. [...] Number of Yoga Not specified in Physical Yoga was reported to included RCTs abstract functioning decrease pain and was NR Disability disability Patients with Pain Additional research is chronic low Psychological needed to determine the back pain symptoms effect on psychological N = NR symptoms 7 Gordon, 2016. [...] Function exercise was more Adults (including Usual care effective than placebo, nonradicular or exercise) Sham therapy no intervention, or usual radicular low Inactive therapy care for acute and back pain Another active chronic low back pain N = NR therapy (low to moderate SOE) Saragiotto, MA performed Motor control Minimal Pain intensity Motor control exercise 14 2016 32 [...] Depression that aerobic exercise could Patients with Anxiety effectively diminish pain chronic low Heart rate intensity and improve the back pain Sit-and-reach physical and psychologic N = 310 test functioning of chronic low 21 back pain patients” Maximum oxygen consumption O'Connor, MA performed Walking Control Pain Evidence of fair 22 2015. [...] Pain Pilates was not superior 36 2013 8 included Minimal Disability to other forms of exercise RCTs intervention for reducing pain Adults with Other types of intensity chronic exercises Pilates was more nonspecific low effective than minimal back pain intervention for reducing N = NR short-term pain and disability Pennick, 26 included Any treatment Usual prenatal Pain E