O efeito do método pilates na lombalgia crônica não específica

Abstract

Introduction: Low back pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders in modern society. The Pilates method has been widely used as a treatment of this type of disorder, however, there is little evidence about its effects in patients with non specific chronic low back pain. Objective: To evaluate the effect of the Pilates method in non-specific low back pain through a systematic review of the literature. Methods: We conducted a literature search in Medline, PEDro, Lilacs and SciELO. We used the keywords "low back pain" and "Pilates", and these descriptors were crossed during the search. Results: The initial research conducted in electronic databases identified 33 references to studies. We selected articles that evaluated the effects of Pilates in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain, compared with other methods of intervention, no treatment or placebo treatment. After initial analysis only five articles met the inclusion criteria and were selected to be part of that work. Conclusion: Although the results of the analyzed studies proving the effectiveness of Pilates and favor in relation to minimal intervention for improvement of pain and disability, these results should be interpreted with caution due to the use of small samples and low methodological quality of studies available.