Influence of different aquatic physiotherapy programs on the low back pain with radiculopathy

This paper describes research of different aquatic physiotherapy programs on the low back pain with radiculopathy. The pain of low back that is induced by structural and functional changes is multifactorial pathology that doesn’t have a unique treatment opinion. Nowadays the main task of medicine is to control the pain effectively and to restore disordered functions. In order to realize such task different treatment means are invoked, such as medicaments, surgery and etc. Nowadays preferential treatment is appointed to rehabilitation, especially physiotherapy. The dominant research opinion proposes that physical therapy in the water is very effective treatment of the pathological low back pain. It is mentioned a lot of methods used in the water, but there isn’t excluded any advantages of one or another method. The main task of this research is to define the influence of two different physical therapy methods in water to the low back pain with radiculopathy. There is estimated influence of different physical therapy methods to the functional ability and straight leg test results. There is also observed short-term and long-term physical therapy influence to the low back pain with radiculopathy. In primary hypothesis there is considered that stretching-relaxing exercises should have more impact for low back pain than stability–strength exercises. The result of the research showed that both physical therapy methods are effective in the low back pain treatment. Significant difference of those methods is noticed when estimating short-term treatment influence. In this case, stretching-relaxing exercises decreased the pain of low back two times effectively than stability–strength exercises after each procedure