Methods of physiotherapy in treatment of intervertebral disc’s pathology in lumbar part of spine

Przemysław Lisiński, Agnieszka Jachowska, Włodzimierz Samborski

Przemysław Lisiński, Agnieszka Jachowska, Włodzimierz Samborski – Methods of physiotherapy in treatment of intervertebral disc’s pathology in lumbar part of spine. Fizjoterapia Polska 2006; 6(3); 222-227

Abstract
Background. Physiotherapy is very often the first step in a treatment of back pain. The aim of kinesis therapy is a probe of a damaged disc reposition. Beside of this kinesis therapy improve an elasticity of ligaments and makes stronger a paravertebral muscles. Physical therapy procedures plays significant role in a pain treatment in subjective categories of course. Material and methods. All participants of that study were selected by clinical examination and analyses of accessory investigations. Clinical examination was repeated after twenty days of treatment by different physiotherapeutic procedures. So forty patients were included in a treatment. Status of health was calculated by typical orthopedic procedure and total pain pattern questionnaire. The aim of study was to state if physiotherapy is useful method of pain treatment and to compare effects different groups of procedures. Results. All participants of that study state positive effects of a treatment which was used during twenty days. A majority of them described pain after a treatment as a small discomfort or did not feel pain at all. Beside of these findings they concluded that a frequency of pain appearance depressed in near all analyzed cases. Conclusion. Back pain caused by disc derangement positively responded on physiotherapeutic procedures. A selection of particular methods is not so important in effectiveness categories. The treatment is the most successful when kinesis therapy and physical therapy are joined.

Key words:
pain, lumbar spine, physiotherapy

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