Resultado de la aplicación de esferodinamia como tratamiento para el lumbago no específico en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga en el periodo noviembre 2013-mayo 2014

Abstract

General Objective: determining the results about the Esferodinamia applied for unspecific low back pain in patients in age between 45- 55 years old, who were attending in the Hospital “José Carrasco Arteaga” Cuenca, November 2013 – -May 2014.

Methodology: this is a Non controled pre-pos cuasi experimental study, in patients between 45-55 years old who were attending in the Hospital “José Carrasco Arteaga” Cuenca, November 2013 – May 2014.

The cases of unspecific low back pain were diagnostic by CIE-10. In this study was performed a previous pain evaluation to show the degree of pain, then the treatment was performed, and then a new pain evaluation to show the effect of treatment, that were an application of muscular strengthening and stretching using fit balls of 55 to 75 diameters. The figures were analyzed and organized by the statistics programs SPSS 21, here were used tables and graphics, showing in this way the funded results.

Results: In the begin of this treatment the figures gets in first pain test shows that 83,78% of participants felt high pain (7-8-9-10) in Visual Analogue Scale, in opposite case on the final pain were 51,35% of patients finished the treatment with low pain (1-2-3) and 40,54% didn’t felt pain in the treatment’s ending. Comparing pain before and after treatment by Mc Nemar Chi2 test, a statistically significant difference (p = 0.000) was found.

Conclusion: At the end of the study it was observed that the treatment had a positive impact on the 91,89% of the participants.