Abstract
Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain is one of the most important conservative treatments. However, the fee-for-exercise therapy has reduced in current medical administration system for the reason of scientific grounds about the therapy effect not being established. In previous systematic reviews some problems were pointed out, which were such that definitions of chronic low back pain and outcome measures to assess the effects were not unified, and exercise for subjects and treatment for control groups were various among papers. Recently Liddle SD carried out new systematic review that were improved about these points, and it reported that exercise had a positive effect on patients with chronic low back pain and the results were largely maintained at follow-up. Now domestically high quality RCT about exercise therapy for chronic backache is ongoing, and it may be the time that we should review the evaluation for availability of exercise therapy.
