Special technique successful for chronic back pain
Rehab Regs, June 2, 2005
A physical therapy method is successful in treating people with severe back pain due to disc disease, according to Lab Business Week. The method, called Souchard's global postural re-education, involves stretching and strengthening of the para-spinal and other muscles in the abdominal wall that have become weak and shortened through stress and inadequate use or overuse. The process improves symptoms by correcting the patient's posture and decompressing the spinal canal. A study involving the method was conducted at the Neurologic Center for Treatment and Rehabilitation in Buenos Aires and involved 102 people who had severe pain for an average of seven months due to spinal disc protrusions, spinal canal stenosis, or narrrowing, or other disc disease. For 85% of study participants, improvement was noted after three weeks of treatment, reported Lab Business Week.
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