TY - JOUR AU - Ahmed, Akhlaq AU - Waqas, Muhammad Sharif AU - Ijaz, Muhammad Junaid AU - Adeel, Muhammad AU - Haider, Rizwan AU - Ahmed, Muhammad Izhar PY - 2017/12/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Effectiveness of Core Muscle Stabilization Exercises with and without Lumbar Stretching in Non-Specific Low Back Pain JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 23 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v23i3.2020 UR - https://www.annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/2020 SP - AB - <p>Background: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is the pain that lasts for more than 12 weeks. The causes of&nbsp;low back pain are; the decrease strength of superficial trunk and abdominal musculature, insufficient&nbsp;motor control of the deep trunk muscles. The management strategies are the use of reassu-rance,<br>recommendations to be active, brief awareness, analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, spinal&nbsp;manipulation therapy, muscle relaxants and weak opioids. In chronic cases exercise therapy have&nbsp;important documented role.<br>Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of core muscle stabilization exercises with and without&nbsp;lumbar stretching exercises in non-specific low back pain patients.&nbsp;Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study. Subjects with non specific low back pain fullfilling the&nbsp;predetermined sample selection criteria were divided into two groups randomly. Pre-assessment was&nbsp;done by using numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) and oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire<br>(OLBPDQ)as subjective measure-ments while range of motion and muscle strength as objective&nbsp;measurements. Subjects in group one were treated with lumbar muscle stabilization exercises and the&nbsp;other was treated with core muscle stabilization exercises with lumbar stretching. Each subject was given&nbsp;12 treatment sessions with 2 sessions per week. Post treatment assessment was done after 3rd and 6th&nbsp;week treatment. Readings were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences 21.<br>Results: The pain intensity was changed from 7.77±1.02 to 3.50±1.185 for group 1 and 8.36± 1.136 to&nbsp;0.68±0.7163 for group 2. The functional status score also showed more improvement in group 2 from&nbsp;28.50±5.990 to 8.45±2.198 than group 1.<br>Conclusion: The results proved that core muscle stabilization with lumbar stertching were more effective&nbsp;than core muscle stabilization exercises alone for the management of non-specific low back pian.</p> ER -