AbstractMechanical low back pain (LBP) is the most common complaints in the urban society causing to absent from the work and activity limitation. Its health, social and economic burden is hefty. Despite developments in modern medicine in general and growing knowledge of spinal diseases, problem of nonspecific low back pain remains unsolved. In India, occurrence of LBP is also alarming; nearly 60% of the people have significant back pain at some time or the other in the lives and responsible to cause workrelated disability in persons younger than 45 years. Even though there is ample evidence stating the efficacy of lumbar stabilization training but the evidence based practice are lacking that establish the role of pressure biofeedback training in lumbar stabilization. The present contribution intends to study whether pressure biofeedback in lumbar stabilization exercises has any role in the pain management and decreasing the relatedness disability as measured by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Modified Oswestry Low back Pain Questionnaire (MOLBPQ) respectively. An intervention including lumbar stabilization exercises of 3 week protocol was given to 2 groups of 15 patients. Both groups showed decrease in pain and disability after intervention but the group involving lumbar stabilization exercises using pressure biofeedback group showed significant improvement as compared with the other group. Conclusively, lumbar stabilization exercises using pressure biofeedback are more beneficial than lumbar stabilization exercises alone in mechanical low back pain patients.
Keywords: Lumbar stabilization exercises; Pressure bio feedback; Mechanical low back pain.