Place of physical therapy with particular emphasis on exercises and massage in the treatment of patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Mateusz Wojciech Romanowski

M. W. Romanowski – Place of physical therapy with particular emphasis on exercises and massage in the treatment of patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Fizjoterapia Polska 2020; 20(3); 90-101

Abstract
Place of physical therapy with particular emphasis on exercises and massage in the treatment of patients with Ankylosing SpondylitisThe process includes the sacroiliac joints, spinal joints and ligaments, fibrous rings and peripheral joints. From 0.1% to 0.5% of the population in Central Europe suffer from AS. Treatment of patients with AS requires, first of all, combining pharmacotherapy with non-pharmacological treatment including mainly: physical exercise, massage, participation in self-help groups, education, manual therapy, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, acupuncture, balneotherapy, spa therapy, systemic cryotherapy, lifestyle modification. So far, no single, proper algorithm for non-pharmacological treatment of patients with AS has been developed.
Key words:
Ankylosing spondylitis, physiotherapy, rheumatology, exercise, massage
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Low back pain – summary of the 2017 Expert Meeting

Mateusz Wojciech Romanowski, Anna Kostiukow, Łukasz Kubaszewski, Wojciech Romanowski, Marian Majchrzycki, Ernest Wiśniewski, Włodzimierz Samborski

M. W. Romanowski, A. Kostiukow, Ł. Kubaszewski, W. Romanowski, M. Majchrzycki, E. Wiśniewski, W. Samborski – Low back pain – summary of the 2017 Expert Meeting. Fizjoterapia Polska 2019; 19(1); 108-122

Abstract
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the main causes of health problems in developed countries. LBP can lead to a high degree of disability and sometimes involve high costs of treatment. The causes of LBP can be classified into the basic three groups: non-specific pain, pain potentially related to radiculopathy or spinal stenosis, pain potentially related to another specific cause. Treatment of low back pain should be directed to the cause of the disorder, and mainly includes non-invasive treatment, physiotherapy, pharmacotherapy, education. Invasive treatment of LBP includes pharmacological blockade, surgery.

Key words:
lower back pain, low back pain, non-specific lower back pain

 

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