The Effect of Aquatic Therapy on Pain, Function and Time Movement of Women with Mechanical Low Back Pain

The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of a selected program of aquatictherapy on pain, function and time movement of women with mechanical low back pain. 19 subjects were randomly divided into two experimental and controlled groups (age of experimental group 47±8.77; age of controlled group 34.67±1.130; BMI of experimental group 24.13± 5.31 and of controlled group 25.07±2.43).The experimental group did aquatic therapy exercises 3 days a week, whereas the second or controlled group did the exercises one day a week. The exercises were stretching, warm-up, deep water exercises and cool down for a period of 80 minutes. The variables consisted of pain, function and time movement. Assessments were carried out in three stages and completed in 6 weeks. The data were analyzed using ANOVA (repeated measurement) & independent T test & Wilcoxon. Results indicated a significant differences in low back pain (P<.001) and positional pain (P<.001) after doing the exercises. They was a significant difference in function (P<.001) and time movement(P<.001) in the experimental group too. The results show that the aquatic therapy exercises caused improvements in the variables considered in this study.