Actualización sobre los efectos de los estiramientos en la lumbalgiauna revisión sistemática
- S. Lago-Figueroa 1
- I. Da Cuña-Carrera 1
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Universidade de Vigo
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ISSN: 0211-5638
Ano de publicación: 2015
Volume: 37
Número: 6
Páxinas: 293-302
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Fisioterapia
Resumo
Objective To analyze the current scientific evidence to know the effects of stretching in patients with low back pain. Research strategy The research was carried out in January 2014 using Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, WOS, LILACS and PubMed. Study selection A total of 350 papers, published between 2009 and 2014, were review. Of these, 12 were finally selected for review after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results Stretching of posterior muscle chain was done in many of the articles. In one article, the nervous tissue was stretched, and in another, muscle stretching was compared with neural mobilization. Conclusions In general, stretching resulted in positives results. The methodological quality of the papers analyzed was low. Therefore, more studies with better quality and larger samples sizes are needed to verify the good results.