EMG Biofeedback Training During Movement
Excerpt
Low back disorders limit a patient's functional and vocational activities and create a major problem when costs for disability evaluation and compensation payments are considered.1 Clinical approaches to the management of chronic low back pain patients include: exercise, surgery, chemotherapy, analgesic blocks, and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.2, 3 These treatments, however, often fail to bring relief; therefore, clinicians need to seek better methods of attending to this problem.4
Electromyographic biofeedback training may be a very effective treatment method for muscle reeducation.5 Although EMG biofeedback has been used in conjunction with relaxation training to reduce muscle activity in patients with chronic low back pain,6 to date, the use of this modality to induce voluntary changes in their standing positions has not been explored. Therefore, we selected a patient with chronic back pain in order to study the effects of EMG biofeedback training to his low back musculature during stationary positions (standing and sitting) and trunk movements.…
- Biofeedback
- Electromyography
- Lumbosacral region
- Pain
- Physical therapy
- Received December 18, 1978.
- Accepted August 30, 1979.