Effects of Balanced Ligamentous Osteopathic Technique over L5 in low back pain

Abstract

Due to the high incidence of non-specific low back pain in the world population that don’t present a response with conventional tools, a quantitative register is sought, through a Balanced Ligamentous Osteopathic Technique, that responds to its effectiveness on the ligaments iliolumbar elongated by the vertebral injury, that is, the correction of a second-degree injury of the 5th lumbar. The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a decrease in local pain and an increase in trunk flexion movement in Lumbosacral Hinge after applying the Balanced Ligament Osteopathic Technique on the transverse apophysis of the 5th lumbar and to emphasize the importance of the treatment of ligament structures in the specific biomechanical integration of the entire spine. This design consisted of two groups, an experimental one that received the treatment detailed in the present work, while the second group was the control group, which received a placebo intervention. It was made up of two groups, one of an experimental type, of 72 participants, who received the treatment detailed in the present work, while the second group of other 72 participants, was the control group, which received a placebo intervention. Quantitative pain values were taken through the Algometer (local pain) and the "ground finger" test to record the presence of the limits that pain generates for the trunk flexion movement. The "ground finger" test resulted in an increase of 62.6% for the experimental group and 6.7% for the control group, before and after the intervention. The same occurred in the Algometer record before and after the intervention, giving a 133% increase in tolerance to pressure in the experimental group and in the control group it did not exceed 1%.