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Effects of Wuqinxi in the Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Source :
- Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol 2020 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- Low back pain (LBP) is one of the major concerns of the current health care. The guidelines for chronic LBP recommend traditional Chinese exercise as an effective treatment. As one of the representatives of traditional Chinese exercise, Wuqinxi has been famous in China for its effects on improving health and treating chronic diseases for thousands of years. The objectives of the study were to assess the effects of Wuqinxi in the patients with chronic LBP on pain intensity, trunk muscle strength, and quality of life. The primary outcome measure was assessed by the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ), including the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and Present Pain Intensity (PPI) as the subtables. The effects of Wuqinxi on the quality of life were also assessed by the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) from physical component summary (PCS), mental component summary (MCS), and sleep quality. Besides, the electrical activities of the rectus abdominis (RA), obliquus externus abdominis (OEA), lumbar erector spinae (ES), and multifidus (MF) were assessed by integrated electromyogram (iEMG) after the end of the intervention. Both the groups showed statistically significant improvement in SF-MPQ, SF-36, PSQI, and iEMG at 12 weeks and 24 weeks when compared with baseline (P<0.05). However, Wuqinxi demonstrated better effects in SF-MPQ and MCS after 24 weeks of intervention compared with the general exercise (P<0.05). The patients in the Wuqinxi group (WQXG) also showed a significantly higher iEMG on OEA than the general exercise group (GEG) in 30°/s and 90°/s (P<0.05). Our results showed that Wuqinxi had better effects on chronic LBP for a long time compared with general exercise, including pain intensity and quality of life. Thus, Wuqinxi should be recognized as a possible standalone therapy and self-management skill in chronic LBP, which is suitable for long-term practice.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Article Subject
Visual analogue scale
law.invention
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
Other systems of medicine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Lumbar
Quality of life
Randomized controlled trial
law
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
business.industry
Low back pain
humanities
Chronic low back pain
Complementary and alternative medicine
McGill Pain Questionnaire
Physical therapy
medicine.symptom
business
RZ201-999
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17414288 and 1741427X
- Volume :
- 2020
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....22db6815f57ad88bf24599c1a58d827e