Lower back pain is a common, painful condition affecting the lower portion of the spine.
Low back pain is caused by injury to a muscle (strain) or ligament (sprain). Common causes include improper lifting, poor posture, lack of regular exercise, a fracture, a ruptured disc, or arthritis.
In a study from the Shanghai University of Sport, scientists found aquatic exercise leads to greater pain reduction in people with chronic low back pain compared with physical therapy.
They examined the long-term effects of therapeutic aquatic exercise on people with chronic low back pain.
The analysis included 113 participants assigned to either therapeutic aquatic exercise (56 participants) or the physical therapy group (57 participants).
The researchers found that compared with the physical therapy modalities group, the therapeutic aquatic exercise group showed a greater reduction 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 therapeutic aquatic exercise group at 12 months included the number of participants who met the minimal clinically important difference in pain (at least a 2-point improvement on the numeric rating scale) and.
The team says this finding may prompt clinicians to recommend therapeutic 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 was conducted by Meng-Si Peng et al and published in JAMA Network Open.
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