Affiliation:
1. Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract
ABSTRACT Low back pain or lumbago is a painful condition that affects an increasing number of people around the world and has numerous causal factors. Among these factors, the most distinctive are muscle imbalances, weakness of paravertebral muscles and shortening of ischiotibial muscles. The role of these muscle groups is still controversial and not fully explained in the literature. Thus, a survey was conducted in the SciELO, LILACS, MEDLINE, and PubMed databases in the last decade (2003-2013), using as keywords: hamstrings, low back pain, lumbago, and paravertebral. The works found confirm that, according to the methodology, weakness in paravertebral muscles is of great importance to the development of low back pain as well as the shortening of the ischiotibial muscles, which are directly related to this factor.
Subject
Clinical Neurology,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Surgery
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