Water exercise rehabilitation for people suffering from non-specific chronic low back pain

Water exercise offers many advantages in term of exercising to maintain physical conditions and rehabilitation. The water element has many properties that reduces compressive force on discs and allows persons who suffers from pain to get into different postures that would be difficult in land-based therapeutic exercise. The aim of this thesis is to propose a package to clients who suffers from non-specific low back pain to benefits of a designed training programme through specific movement performed in the water element instead of traditional exercises to reduce or get rid of pain in the lumbar region. Based on most recent scientific literature on pain and the treatment of non-specific chronic low back pain, and its treatment. The product has been delivered to physiotherapist working with the Satakunnan selkäyhdistys who offers water exercise for people experiencing chronic low back pain. Subjective questionnaire has been designed to evaluate the level of satisfaction of participants and if they felt a decrease in their experience of pain after performing water exercise but has not been returned. No conclusions can be done