Dorsalgia non specific
Conditions
Interventions
The sample will be composed of 60 adult men, military police of the city of Curitiba / PR (PMPR), between 18 and 40 years of age and suffering from chronic nonspecific low back pain. There will be two
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Sponsors
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Male
Age
18 Years to 40 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The inclusion criteria establish that the participants must be state military police officers between the ages of eighteen and forty; to present chronic nonspecific low back pain for a period of more than six months; be willing to participate in three weekly sessions of Pilates classes for a period of four months and not present any injury or illness that prevents the performance of the physical tests or any exercise proposed by the Pilates Method intervention program.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The exclusion criteria of the present study include those police officers who do not complete all the pre and post intervention intervention tests; the police officers who do not regularly attend Pilates classes, that is, have twenty percent or more absences; suffer any type of injury, which prevents participation in the proposed tests or continuation of the training sessions and those participants requesting a dismissal of the research.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To verify if the group of Military Policemen participating in the program of exercises based on the Pilates Method will present improvements in the neuromuscular parameters evaluated, greater of at least 5%, and in the reduction of the intensity of the low back pain between the pre and post intervention measurements. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcomes are not expected. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactJanny Tavares
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Outcome results
None listed