Efectividad del método Pilates en lumbalgia inespecífica en el personal que labora en la Pasamanería S. A.

Abstract

Background: LBP is one of the biggest problems of absenteeism, having a frequency of 80-90 %. Whereas in USA the costs generated by back pain exceeds 90,000 million. General objective: to determine the effectiveness by the Pilates method in the management of patients with LBP applied to the staff working in the “Pasamanería S.A”. Cuenca – Ecuador 2015. Methodology: quasi-experimental uncontrolled pre -post study, in which 123 people participated in ages between 30 and 59 years, of which 104 completed the treatment by Pilates; to a pain assessment was performed by verbal numerical scale, it allowed us to measure its intensity. Subsequently, the data were analyzed and processed through SPSS version 15.0, Microsoft Excel 2010, making tables and graphs showing results. Results: at baseline with values obtained in the test of pain by Numerical Verbal Scale showed that 48 % of participants felt moderate pain (4-5-6) and 47.13 % had severe pain (7-8-9-10), in contrast to the assessment made at the end of treatment with the same scale in which 23.08 % had no pain, 72.11 % had mild pain (1-2-3) and 4.81 % had moderate pain (4). Conclusion: upon completion of the study found that the method used was beneficial to reduce nonspecific LBP, since it had an impact on the 85.55 % of the participants