Utilização das terapias manipulativas

Abstract

Low back pain is recognized as a public health problem, but its pathophysiology is not well understood, one of the most frequent causes of medical care and the second leading cause of absence at work. The manipulative therapies are used more than two thousand years without having been fully understood its physiological and therapeutic effects. There are basically two types of manipulation: a high-speed, low amplitude manipulation and mobilization made in a specific region, which may be a certain portion of the spine. Thus aim of this article was to investigate whether the manual therapy techniques have effectiveness described in the literature for the treatment of low back pain. This research it is a literature in which they were considered for this review complete articles published between the months of January 2008 and February 2013. It was concluded that spinal manipulation is a method widely used and increasingly is chosen as main treatment option for back pains, especially low back pains. The literature, however, shows conflicting results about its effectiveness.