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ArticleJournal of sports science & medicine2017

Effect of Upper-Extremity Strengthening Exercises on the Lumbar Strength, Disability and Pain of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Study.

Erdem Atalay, Bedrettin Akova, Hakan Gür, Ufuk Sekir

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Article in Journal of sports science & medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07610044 (Comparative Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises and Swiss Ball Exercises in Patients With Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT07610044 naenrolling by invitationnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Comparative Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises and Swiss Ball Exercises in Patients With Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of LahoreRan2025 to 2026Enrolled69ConditionsNon-specific Chronic Low Back PainArmsBaseline Physiotherapy, Swiss Ball Exercises, Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erdem AtalayEskisehir Yunus Emre State Hospital, Eskisehir, Turkey.
Bedrettin AkovaMedical Faculty of Uludag University, Department of Sports Medicine, Bursa, Turkey.
Hakan GürMedical Faculty of Uludag University, Department of Sports Medicine, Bursa, Turkey.
Ufuk SekirMedical Faculty of Uludag University, Department of Sports Medicine, Bursa, Turkey.
Eskişehir City Hospital · TR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the impacts of a low back rehabilitation program accompanied with neck, shoulder and upper back exercises on pain, disability, and physical characteristics of patients with chronic low back pain. Twenty sedentary male patients with chronic low back pain participated in the study on a voluntary basis. The patients were randomly allocated into two groups: a conventional low back exercise group (CE) and a supported exercise group (SE; CE plus upper back, neck, and shoulder exercises). The Modified Oswestry Disability Questionnaire (MODQ) was used to evaluate the disability status and the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was used to identify the pain states of the patients. In addition, neck, lumbar and shoulder isokinetic and isometric strengths of the patients were evaluated. The CE group performed lumbar stretching, mobilization and stabilization exercises in addition to low-back and abdominal isometric and concentric strengthening exercises. The SE group performed static stretching and isotonic exercises for the neck, upper-back, and shoulder muscles, in addition to the exercises performed in CE group. The exercises were implemented 3 days a week for 6 weeks in both groups. Following the 6-week exercise periods in both groups, statistically significant (p < 0.01) improvements were observed in the patients' levels of pain and the scores of MODQ reflecting an easing of disability. With respect to the levels of pain and disability, the improvements observed in the SE group was significantly (p < 0.01) greater than the improvement observed in the CE group. Based on the findings of this study, we can conclude that a low back exercise program used in combination with neck, shoulder and upper back exercises reduces the level of pain and disability in patients with chronic low back pain more prominently than conventional low back exercises.

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back and neck exercisesChronic back paindisabilitypain

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PMID29238262
PMCPMC5721192
OpenAlexW2801507658

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