: Exercise is important as adjuvant in the chronic low back pain (CLBP) treatment. Functional training could involve benefits for low back pain (LBP) patients.
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the effects of a 12-week period of functional resistance training on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), disability, body pain, and physical fitness in CLBP females.
METHODS:
Nineteen females CLBP were recruited according to Paris Task Force on Back Pain criteria. Participants were randomly assigned to an exercise group (EG); and a control group (CG). Subjects were tested at baseline and at week 12 after 24 sessions, 2 days per week. Body pain was assessed using visual analog scale (VAS), disability with Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and HRQOL with Short Form 36 questionnaire. Physical fitness was measured using: flamingo test, back endurance test, side bridge test, abdominal curl-up tests, and 60-s squat test.
RESULTS:
EG showed significant improvements in physical function (10%; 0.05), body pain (42%; 0.05), vitality (31%; 0.05), physical component scale (15%; 0.05), VAS (62.5%; 0.01), ODI (61.3%; 0.05), balance (58%; 0.05), curl-up (83%; 0.01), squat (22%; 0.01), static back (67%; 0.01), and side bridge (56%; 0.01).
CONCLUSION:
Periodized functional resistance training decreased pain and disability and improved HRQOL, balance and physical fitness in females with CLBP, and can thus be used safely in this population.
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