Use este identificador para citar ou linkar para este item: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/41504
Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Association between clinical tests related to motor control dysfunction and changes in pain and disability after lumbar stabilization exercises in individuals with chronic low back pain
Autor(es): Crystian Bitencourt Soares de Oliveira
Rafael Zambelli de Almeida Pinto
Siobhan Schabrun
Marcia Rodrigues Costa Franco
Priscila Kalil Morelhão
Fernanda Gonçalves Silva
Tatiana Machado de Mattos Damato
Ruben de Faria Negrão Filho
Resumo: Objective: To investigate whether clinical tests used to detect motor control dysfunction can predict improvements in pain and disability in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain (LBP) who have undergone an 8-week lumbar stabilization exercise program. Study Design: A prospective cohort study. Setting: Outpatient physical therapy university clinic. Participants: Seventy people with chronic nonspecific LBP were recruited, and 64 completed the exercise program (N=64). Interventions: The lumbar stabilization program was provided twice a week for 8 weeks. Main Outcome Measures: Pain intensity (11-point numerical rating scale) and disability (Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire) and clinical tests, such as the Deep Muscle Contraction (DMC) scale, Clinical Test of Thoracolumbar Dissociation (CTTD), and Passive Lumbar Extension (PLE) test. Univariate and multivariate linear regression models were used in the prediction analysis. Results: Mean changes in pain intensity and disability following the 8-week stabilization program were −3.8 (95% confidence interval [CI], −3.2 to −4.4) and −7.4 (95% CI, −6.3 to −8.5), respectively. Clinical test scores taken at baseline did not predict changes in pain and disability at 8-week follow-up. Conclusion: Our findings revealed that the DMC scale, CTTD, PLE test, clinical tests used to assess motor control dysfunction, do not predict improvements in pain and disability in patients with chronic nonspecific LBP following an 8-week lumbar stabilization exercise program.
Assunto: Dor lombar
Exercícios terapêuticos
Avaliação de resultados (Cuidados de Saúde)
Reabilitação
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Instituição: UFMG
Departamento: EEF - DEPARTAMENTO DE FISIOTERAPIA
Tipo de Acesso: Acesso Restrito
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2019.01.019
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/41504
Data do documento: Jul-2019
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000399931930111X?via%3Dihub
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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