Ultrasound Measures of the Abdominal Wall in Patients with Low Back Pain Before and After an 8-week Lumbar Stabilization Exercise Program, and Their Association With Clinical Outcomes

PM & R : the Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation
Christian LarivièreJean-Pierre Dumas

Abstract

Lumbar stabilization exercise programs (LSEPs) act positively on clinical outcome measures in patients with low back pain (LBP), but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Among the various neuromuscular mechanisms, a good candidate is better activation of the abdominal wall, as measured with rehabilitative ultrasound imaging (RUSI). To determine whether RUSI measures are (1) sensitive to LBP status and treatment (LSEP) and (2) correlate with clinical outcomes following the LSEP. An exploratory one-arm clinical trial with healthy participants as a control group. LSEP was delivered in a clinical setting; outcomes were measured in a laboratory setting. Thirty-one patients with nonacute LBP and 30 healthy controls. Outcome measures were performed before and after an 8-week LSEP in patients with LBP, and with the same time interval for control participants to compare with patients at baseline. Pain, disability, as well as static (at rest) and dynamic (percent thickness change) RUSI measures for abdominal muscles (transversus abdominis, internal oblique [IO], and external oblique [EO]). Patients did not produce systematic changes in RUSI measures relative to controls, even if patients had significant improvement in pain ...Continue Reading

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