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- Title
Systematic back muscle exercise after percutaneous vertebroplasty for spinal osteoporotic compression fracture patients: a randomized controlled trial.
- Authors
Chen, Bai-Ling; Zhong, Yi; Huang, Yang-Liang; Zeng, Li-Wen; Li, Yi-Qiang; Yang, Xiao-Xi; Jiang, Qin; Wang, Chu-Huai
- Abstract
Objective: To analyze the clinical significance of postoperative back muscle exercises after percutaneous vertebroplasty for spinal osteoporotic compression fracture patients.Design: Clinical randomized controlled trials of parallel group nonpharmacologic study.Setting: Patients practised back muscle exercises in the spinal surgery department, rehabilitation department and at their residences.Subjects: Osteoporotic compression fracture patients who had undergone percutaneous vertebroplasty and processed sufficient muscle strength to participate in the training were studied.Interventions: Patients were randomized into two groups, which were titled A and B. General postoperation therapy, including antiosteoporotic medications and education, was offered to all patients. Group B patients received additional systematic back muscle exercise.Main measures: Both Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and visual analogue scale (VAS) were recorded preoperatively and postoperatively at three-day, one-month, six-month, one-year and two-year follow-up.Results: From January 2006 to January 2009, a total of 82 patients were assessed for eligibility, 60 patients were enrolled and randomized into two groups. Forty-two (70%) patients (20 of 30 in Group A and 22 of 30 in Group B) were successfully followed-up for two years. Systematic back muscle exercises resulted in a significant advantage in both measurements. The ODI of Group B was significantly better than Group A at the six-month, one-year and two-year follow-ups (P < 0.05). The pain level of Group B was significantly lower than in Group A at the one- and two-year follow-ups (P < 0.05). At the end of our study, the mean (SD) of the ODI in Groups A and B were 39.1 (9.14) and 23.4 (5.62); the mean (SD) of the VAS in Groups A and B were 3.4 (1.15) and 2.1 (0.84), respectively.Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the benefit of the exercises required at least six months to be observed; however, the favourable effects could last for two years. Therefore, systematic back muscle exercise should be recommended as one of the treatment guidelines for postpercutaneous vertebroplasty patients.
- Subjects
VERTEBROPLASTY; BONE surgery; COMPRESSION fractures; ANALYSIS of variance; CONFIDENCE intervals; EXERCISE; OSTEOPOROSIS; HEALTH outcome assessment; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SPINAL fusion; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; VISUAL analog scale; TREATMENT effectiveness; REPEATED measures design; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; REHABILITATION; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Clinical Rehabilitation, 2012, Vol 26, Issue 6, p483
- ISSN
0269-2155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269215511423557