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Effect of post-isometric relaxation exercises on the ilio-psoas muscles in patients with lumbar discopathy
Stodolny J, Mazur T
Journal of Manual Medicine 1989;4(2):52-54
clinical trial
4/10 [Eligibility criteria: No; Random allocation: Yes; Concealed allocation: No; Baseline comparability: No; Blind subjects: No; Blind therapists: No; Blind assessors: No; Adequate follow-up: Yes; Intention-to-treat analysis: No; Between-group comparisons: Yes; Point estimates and variability: Yes. Note: Eligibility criteria item does not contribute to total score] *This score has been confirmed*

In the pathology of degenerative disease of the intervertebral disc, muscle disorders play a very important role. In particular, contractures of ilio-psoas muscles play a significant role in lumbar disc disease. Kinesitherapeutical programs, generally used in low back pains on the background of discopathy, do not respect this fact. Examinations in 80 patients, having low back pain on the background of lumbar discopathy were made and contractures of ilio-psoas muscles were exhibited in all the patients. Those patients were divided into two groups by random. In the one group the generally applied kinesitherapeutical program was used, in the other this program was supplemented by post-isometrical relaxation exercises of ilio-psoas muscles. Using the post-isometrical relaxation exercises of the muscles appreciably influenced a reduction of contractures of the ilio-psoas muscles.

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