A Review of the Effectiveness of Exercise Protocols on Proprioception andPain in People With Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain

Chronic low back pain is one of the most common and costly musculoskeletaldisorders in societies and is an important clinical and socio-economic epidemic, mostly in industry andnon-industry. The aim of this study was to a systematic review of the effectiveness of exercise protocolson lumbar proprioception in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain.

From internal and external search engines, including Scopus, Semantic Scholar,Google Scholar, Pubmed, ISC, SID, Magiran, Irandoc, and Doaj with time limit 2010 to 2021 and the keywordsexercises, proprioception, non-specific, and chronic low back pain, the present study was doneusing PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes).

Results :

Nine articles were selected based on inclusion criteria. These studies mainly focused on systematicreview effectiveness of exercise protocols on sensation and low back pain in people with non-specificchronic low back pain.

According to the research reviewed in the present study, it seems that exercise rehabilitationprotocols activate, strengthen, maintain, and increase the central region of the body, especially deepmuscles, particularly the multifidus and transverse abdomen, by retraining the pelvic lumbar region. Thediaphragm and diagonal of the abdomen and pelvic floor, which play a role in the important segmentalstability of the lumbar spine, improve the sense of depth and pain in patients with chronic nonspecificlow back pain.