著者

相羽 宏 舟崎 裕記 川井 謙太朗

出版者

日本脊髄外科学会

雑誌

脊髄外科 (ISSN:09146024)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.31, no.2, pp.140-144, 2017 (Released:2017-10-28)

参考文献数

16

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Exercise therapy is useful for low back pain. Exercise therapy aims to improve postural alignment, muscle strength, and endurance, and also contributes to pain relief and the prevention of recurrences.Furthermore, exercise therapy helps to reduce the psychological burden in chronic low back pain patients. Exercise therapy for low back pain is divided into two major categories : stretching for flexibility and motor control for lumbar spine and pelvic stability. Patients with low back pain reportedly have less trunk and lower limb flexibility. Flexibility can be enhanced with trunk and lower limb stretching, which contributes to the maintenance of postural alignment under gravity. Trunk stability exercises using the inner unit have been widely applied for nervous, skeletal,and muscular system coordination as well as lumbar spine dynamic stability