Relevance Of Back School Therapy In Conservative Management Of Low Back Pain

10.5580/43e ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Conservative Management ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Back School

scholarly journals Effect of back school protocol on the referral rate of patients with low back pain to an industrial physiotherapy clinic

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Odebiyi ◽  
A. O. Akinpelu ◽  
M. O. B. Olaogun
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Back School ◽  
Soap Making ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Back Care ◽  
Chi Square Analysis ◽  
Physiotherapy Clinic

Back schools are educational programmes originally developed in a work place (Volvo factory in Sweden) for patients with back pain, to enable them to manage their own back problems better. ‘Back school’ was originally aimed at modifying the behaviours of patients with low back pain (LBP), with the view to prevent relapses. In an effort to encourage and stimulate the use of ‘back school’ among health workers in Nigeria, this study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of a back school protocol in a Soap Making Industry in Lagos, Nigeria. One hundred and ten (110) workers of a Soap Making Industry in Lagos, Nigeria,  participated in this study. A pre-test, post-test experimental design was employed. The participants were divided into two groups - office workers and factory workers for the purpose of the training in the content of the back school protocol. The ‘back school’ consisted of classroom teaching and the use of two videotapes titled “lifting technique” and “back pain”. Data on demographic information, knowledge of back structures and back care were collected using a questionnaire with closed ended questions, which was completed before, immediately after and 8 weeks after the administrations of the contents of the back school protocol (Akinpelu and Odebiyi, 2004). The records of the factory’s clinic were also reviewed for the 12-months before and 12 months after the study. The mean values of the participants’ age, height, weight and body mass index (BMI) were 36.60 ± 9.10 years, 1.65 ± 0.10 m,69.13 ± 7.70 kg and 25.40 ± 3.30 kg/m2 respectively. The results showed that the 12-months prevalence of low back pain (LBP) among the workers was 71%. The result also showed that over 50% of the participants never had any  information or lesson on back care, and those that had some form of information obtained it by chance. There was 23% reduction in referral for care of back pain 12 months after the administration of the back school protocol. However, Chi square analysis showed that there was no significant difference (p = 0.23) between the number of  physiotherapy referrals to the factory’s clinic 12-months before the study and 12-months after the studyThe findings of this study suggest that the back school protocol was able to impart some knowledge (of back pain and back care) in the industrial workers. This knowledge seems to have assisted this group of individuals to cultivate good postural habits, particularly at work. This might have led to the 23% reduction in the reported cases of patients with LBP to the factory’s Physiotherapy Clinic.

Benefits of a Physical Training Program After Back School for Chronic Low Back Pain Patients

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Demoulin ◽  
Didier Maquet ◽  
Marco Tomasella ◽  
Jean-Louis Croisier ◽  
Jean-Michel Crielaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Chronic Low Back Pain ◽  
Physical Training ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Back School ◽  
Pain Patients

Short-term outcomes of a back school program for chronic low back pain

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (8) ◽  
pp. 1099-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audy P. Hodselmans ◽  
Sonja M. Jaegers ◽  
Ludwig N. Göeken
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Chronic Low Back Pain ◽  
Low Back ◽  
School Program ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Back School

scholarly journals Evaluation of pain level and function on low back pain patients treated with Back School program

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Zeraib Caraviello ◽  
Sílvia Wasserstein ◽  
Therezinha Rosane Chamlian ◽  
Danilo Masiero
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Pain Level ◽  
School Program ◽  
Back School ◽  
And Function ◽  
Pain Patients

scholarly journals Randomized Trial of Sacroiliac Joint Arthrodesis Compared with Conservative Management for Chronic Low Back Pain Attributed to the Sacroiliac Joint

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 400-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Dengler ◽  
Djaya Kools ◽  
Robert Pflugmacher ◽  
Alessandro Gasbarrini ◽  
Domenico Prestamburgo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Conservative Management ◽  
Chronic Low Back Pain ◽  
Sacroiliac Joint ◽  
Low Back
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