Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

Comparison of the Effect of Barreausol and Pilates Exercises on the Pain Functional Disability of Women with Chronic Low Back Pain

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
M Amini 1
Gh Ghasemi 2
1 Department of Sport injuries and corrective Exercise, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran
2 Department of Sport injuries and corrective Exercise,, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
10.22038/jpsr.2019.41480.1977
Abstract
Purpose:
Chronic back pain is one of the problems of today's societies, that its treatment reduces the economic, social and psychological consequences of society. Regarding the role of physical activities and exercises in improving back pain, the purpose of this study was to compare the effect of Barreausol and Pilates on pain, functional disability and quality of women with chronic back pain.
Methods:
Thirty patients with chronic back pain were selected as convenience and randomly in three 10-patients groups Barreausol (average age of 42 ± 7, height 160 ± 8, and weight 62 ± 5.5 kg) Pilates (average age of 42.5 ± 5 years, height 159 ± 10 cm, and weight 61 ± 6 kg) control (average age of 42 ± 6 years, height 161 ± 11 cm, and weight 59.5 ± 7 kg) among the referred patients. The intervention group received 8sessions per week and three 60 minute sessions each week. The pain was evaluated by the visual scale of functional pain and functional disability in patients with osteoporosis questionnaire. For analysis, inferential statistics of variance for repeated data were used.
Results:
The findings showed that both of the interventions reduced pain and functional disability in patients compared with the control group (p≤0.05) Also, the findings did not show a significant difference between the two training methods in the dual variables of the research (p>0.05).
Conclusion:
Based on the findings of this study it can be concluded that Barreausol exercises and Pilates exercises can reduce the ' pain and adverse effects of women with chronic low back pain so it can definitely be recommended as a suitable medicine for the treatment of chronic low back pain.
Keywords
Barreausol
Pilates
Functional disability
Chronic low back pain
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Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation
Volume 8, Issue 3
Autumn 2019
Pages 79-88