Study of the efficacy of a Back School Program applied to a Center of Health

MD García Manzanares; M Sunyer; D Tornero; N  Medina; MP Plou; R Limón; MA Ripoll; Espinar J

2006, Number 3-4

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Rev Mex Med Fis Rehab 2006; 18 (3-4)

Study of the efficacy of a Back School Program applied to a Center of Health

García MMD, Sunyer M, Tornero D, Medina N, Plou MP, Limón R, Ripoll MA, Espinar J

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Antecedent: Describe the characteristics of a program of rachialgia in San Juan’s Hospital, applied to a Center of Health population, as well as its effectiveness. Methods: 192 patients with neck pain, dorsalgia and/or lumbalgia were included, during the period January 03- January 05. The program was developed in 6 collective sessions of two months´ duration. It was completed the test of visual analogue scale (VAS) of the pain, a questionnaire of compression of biomechanics concepts and an adapted test of evaluation, with the following variables: subjective evaluation of the postural control and objective valuation of the postural control. An anonymous postal survey was sent to 160 patients. Results and conclusion: The program improves the measured backache through the VAS in a 27.2% and through the test of valuation adapted in a 31.4%. Also we found that it improves the understanding of biomechanic concepts in a 13.1%. These found improvements were statistically significant (p ‹ 0.001). The educational level of the studied subjects was statistically significant correlated (p = 0.0038) with the difference obtained in the questionnaire of understanding of concepts. The patients with a greater adhesion to the practical application of positions were those that obtained a greater reduction of the backache.

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