Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects

Land Based or Hidrotherapy: which is the most
effective multimodal treatment in low back pain?
Cuesta A (1) , González M (1) , Ramos S (2) , Calderón P (2) , Prieto R (2)
(1) Department of Psychiatry and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Malaga
(2) Patronato Municipal de Deportes de Torremolinos. Malaga, Spain
mgsa23@uma.es
Introduction and Objectives
Aim: To study the response to the intervention that provide either a land – based
multimodal physiotherapy program as an acquatic – based multimodal physiotherapy
program, for comparison to identify which of the two media (environments)
provides a greater improvement in subjects suffering chronic nonspecific low back
pain.
Materials and Methods
Through questionnaires SF-12 (PHS and MHS), EuroQol-5D (EQ5D and
EQVAS) and Roland Morris Questionnaire (Disability), measure the general health
state, quality of life and functional capacity of 75 patients (44 women, 31 men) with
a mean age of 51 (±12,83) years suffering chronic nonspecific low back pain without
radiation to lower limbs, divided into two subgroups depending on the environment
where the principal action takes place: subgroup 1 (aquatic-based multimodal
physiotherapy program), with 49 subjects, and subgroup 2 (land-based multimodal
physiotherapy program) with 26 subjects. These measurements were performed
before and after the intervention where there are integrated manual therapy, therapeutic
exercise and health education, during eight weeks
Results
Conclusions
There were no differences between both environment when performing the procedure,
being clear the importance of patient preferences have, these findings will
provide the patient with two alternatives when making the proposed protocol
Keywords: Physiotherapy: Quality Of Life: Low Back Pain: Deep Water Running.
Balnea
2012, núm. 6, 365
365
ISBN: 978-84-669-1887-0
978-84-669-3482-4