Under Water-Exercise for Patients with Low Back Pain

Abstract

There are few papers about the effectiveness of under-water exercise for low back pain. We studied the effect of such exercise in fifteen female patients with low back pain.
Physical Tests including the % fat, vital capacity, spinal functional test (K-W test) were carried out in the patients prior to beginning therapy, then three and six months after the initiation of therapy.
Clinical examination showed an improvement in the low back pain in all casee. Furthermore vital capacity increased and % fat decreased significantly.
Marked improvement was seen using the spinal functional test (K-W test) and the JOA score.
This study demonstrates that under-water exercise was very effective for the treatrment of patients with low back pain.