{"id":139705,"date":"2024-02-27T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/?p=139705"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:50:28","slug":"muscle-contraction-exercise-for-low-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/muscle-contraction-exercise-for-low-back-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle contraction exercise for low back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p><p>Background: Low-back pain (LBP) continues to be one of the main problems for which sufferers seek treatment in primary care. It can be treated with different physiotherapy mechanisms. Objective: The purpose of the study is to compare the effect of isotonic and isometric exercise on the reported pain of patients with low back pain. Methods: Thirty participants, 16 males and 14 females aged between 22 and 50 years suffering from nonspecific low back pain were included. The sample was divided randomly into two groups, group A isometric exercises and group B isotonic exercises, both groups received conservative therapy of TENS and infrared (IR) therapy. The following outcome measures were used: Visual analogue scale, modified Oswestry disability index (MODI) and Endurance Test Measurement were administered pre-treatment and at the end of four weeks of treatment. Results: Both groups were comparable in terms of demographic data, except for weight. Inter group analysis was done using the Mann-Whitney test. When comparing pre- and post-treatments using VAS scores, there were no significant differences between group A and group B (pre-test: P = 0.285; Post-test: P = 0.838). Mann-Whitney test was used to calculate the P-value test between pre-treatment and post- treatment for MODI and there was no significant difference between group A and group B, where the pre-test P-value was 0.061, and post-treatment was 0.077. Comparing between groups, pre- and post-abdominal endurance scores were done using the Mann-Whitney test. The pre-treatment scores revealed P value of 0.345, and the post-treatment scores revealed P value of 0.305. Therefore, there is no statistically significant difference between group A and group B in endurance scores. Conclusion: There was no difference between the use isotonic and isometric exercises on LBP patients. <strong><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>How to Cite<\/strong><\/p><p>Alarab, A., Shameh, R. A., &amp; Ahmad, M. S. (2023). Muscle contraction exercise for low back pain.&nbsp;<em>Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>43<\/em>(01), 53-60.\u200f <strong><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>View at Publisher<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/doi\/full\/10.1142\/S1013702523500075\">https:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/doi\/full\/10.1142\/S1013702523500075<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Background: Low-back pain (LBP) continues to be one of the main problems for which sufferers seek treatment in primary care. It can be treated with different physiotherapy mechanisms. Objective: The purpose of the study is to compare the effect of isotonic and isometric exercise on the reported pain of patients with low back pain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139707,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139705\/revisions\/139707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paluniv.edu.ps\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}