Effect of frequent WBC treatments on the back pain therapy in elderly men
Giemza C, Matczak-Giemza M, De Nardi M, Ostrowska B, Czech P
The aging male : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male · 12 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2014-08-18 · Aging Male · vol. 18 · issue 3 · pp. 135–142
- Publisher
- Informa
- Cited
- 22 citations · more than 63% of similar papers · 0.3× the field average
- References
- 33 works
- Access
- Free to read
- Research areas
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Keywords
- Medicine, Physical therapy
- MeSH
- lumbar vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, humans, low back pain, cryotherapy, aged, male, outcome assessment, health care
5 authors
From PL, IT
- Czesław Giemza · correspondingWroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences
- Magdalena Matczak-GiemzaLublin Oncology Center
- Massimo De NardiUniversity of Milan
- Bożena OstrowskaWroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences
- Piotr CzechWroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences
Abstract
Cryotherapy is the application of a stimulus of a cryotherapeutic temperature below -100 °C in a period of 1-3 min in order to stimulate and use physiological reactions of human body to cold. It can be applied to specific body parts or to a whole body. Whole-body cryotherapy is a treatment method applied in treatment of motor organ issues, nervous system diseases, psychiatry, dermatology and laryngology. The research group consisted of 80 male in the age range of 65-77 suffering from chronic, lasting more than 3 months, lower back pain. The subjects qualified to the research were divided into two groups. Group A consisted of 40 patients who participated in whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) twice a week. Group B also contained 40 patients who participated in WBC whole week. Examinations were conducted twice. The first one was conducted before the commencement of the treatment while the second one after the therapy was over. The results of the research did not show any statistically significant improvement in patients from Group A. However, the results obtained by Group B have proven significant condition improvement and enable the researchers to conclude that WBC is effective in treating patients with lower back pain.
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