Physiotherapy effect on lumbar pain of sedentary work employees and functional indexes

Research object: sedentary work employees lumbar spine pain and functional indexes. Research problem. One of the most frequent contemporary health problems is lumbar pain, which troubles people of all ages: both genders, various ethnical groups, and, as it has been noticed, increasingly children. Lumbar spine pain is one of the main disability reasons for patients under years old and the third most common reason for people over years old (Dauskurtytė, 2011). The main reasons which cause lumbar pain are: decreased physical activity, sedentary work, incorrect posture (Peseckienė et al., 2012). The most frequent complaints about spinal pain of physically inactive people who have sedentary work are decreased muscle stamina, weak waist muscles and disorder of strength balance of muscle groups (Mockevičienė et al., 2012). In Lithuania, there is obviously increasing number of people who work on a computer major part of the day. Long-term seating position is typical for such people (Krutulytė et al., 2007). As we know, muscles and joints must move, therefore low mobility is harmful and may cause a number of problems. The threat is even greater when there is less movement and incorrect seating (Šetkus and Zavadskas, 2012). Research goal: To determine the impact of physiotherapy on lumbar pain of sedentary work employees and functional indexes. Research objectives: 1. To evaluate and compare lumbar pain, body posture, lumbar muscle static stamina, waist muscle isometric strength and functional disability of men and women who have sedentary work before and after physiotherapy. 2. To determine lumbar pain relations with waist muscle isometric strength, waist muscle static stamina, body posture and functional disability. 3. To evaluate and compare the effect of physiotherapy on waist muscle isometric strength, body posture, lumbar pain, lumbar muscle static stamina and functional disability of men and women who have sedentary work; Hypothesis: We think that functional indexes of women with lumbar pain who have sedentary work improve better than of men after 2 months of physiotherapy. Conclusions: 1. After physiotherapy lumbar pain of sedentary work employees statistically significantly decreased, waist muscle static stamina, posture, functional disability and muscle isometric strength statistically significantly increased (p0,05). In both groups, no statistically significant changes in abdominal - back muscle stamina as well as right and left side flexor muscle isometric strength ratio were determined (p>0,05). 2. We did not determine statistically significant relation between pain and muscle stamina, isometric muscle strength and posture before and after physiotherapy (p>0,05), however, weak correlative relationship between right/left side muscles stamina ratio and pain was determined after physiotherapy. Strength relation before physiotherapy and after physiotherapy between pain and Oswestry functional disability was determined (p0,05), except for flexor/extensor isometric muscle strength ratio changes (p