In a new study from Shanghai University of Sport, researchers found aquatic exercise leads to greater pain relief in people with chronic low back pain compared with physical therapy.
They assessed the long-term effects of therapeutic aquatic exercise on people with chronic low back pain.
The analysis included 113 participants r assigned to either therapeutic aquatic exercise (56 participants) or the physical therapy group (57 participants).
The researchers found that compared with the physical therapy group, the aquatic exercise group showed greater alleviation of disability after the three-month intervention, at the six-month follow-up, and at the 12-month follow-up.
Improvements in favor of the aquatic exercise group at 12 months included the number of participants who met the minimal clinically important difference in pain and disability.
The team says this finding may prompt clinicians to recommend aquatic exercise to patients with chronic low back pain as part of treatment to improve their health through active exercise rather than relying on passive relaxation.
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The study is published in JAMA Network Open. One author of the study is Meng-Si Peng.
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