Connections between core stability, mobility, acute and chronic low back pain

Object of research. Connections between core stability and mobility of patients with chronic and acute low back pain. Problem. Are there connections between core stability and mobility in patients with acute or chronic low back pain? Low back pain creates a pain – related disability, social and individual problems and is one of three most common complaints. It is established by many scientific researches that 80 percent of people experience this pain at least once in a lifetime and the same percent of people suffer from reccurent episodes of this pain. Most cases of low back pain happen because of unknow causes. In cases of low back pain there are often changes in core stability and mobility. Aim of research: to evaluate connections between core stability and mobility of patients suffering from acute or chronic low back pain. Goals of research: 1. Evaluate core stability, mobility, pain and disability before and after application of treatment of patients with acute low back pain. 2. Evaluate core stability, mobility, pain and disability before and after application of treatment of patients with chronic low back pain. 3. Establish connections between core stability and mobility for patients with acute and with chronic low back pain before and after applied treatment. Conclusions: 1. For patients with acute low back pain before the treatment there was established imbalance between abdominal and back muscles, intense pain and medium level of functional disability, but activity of oblique muscle and low back mobility were within the norm. After the treatment endurance of back muscles, range of low back flexion increased also pain level and level of functional disability diminished. 2. For patients with chronic low back pain before treatment there was established medium intensity pain level, severe functional disability, but balance between abdominal and back muscles, activity of oblique muscle and low back mobility were within the norm. Endurance of back muscles, abdominal muscles and range of motion of low back extension increased and level of pain and functional disability diminished after the treatment. 3. There is a moderate correlation between core stability and mobility of patients with low back pain. There is also the same correlation between static endurance of core extensors and range of motion of low back extension, and static endurance of abdominal muscles and range of motion of trunk flexion, and after the treatment there is a correlation between static endurance of core extensors and range of motion of trunk flexion