Computer Kinesiology: New diagnostic and therapeutic tool for lower back pain treatment (pilot study)
Abstract
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the diagnostic and therapeutic medical information system Computer Kinesiology in physiotherapy in patients with low back pain, not responding to conventional therapy. The Computer Kinesiology is primarily intended for the diagnostics and therapy of functional disorders of the locomotor system.
This pilot study population included 55 patients (Group 1) with acute and chronic back pain and 51 persons (Group 2) without back pain. The third group was a control group of 67 healthy volunteers with no evidence of musculoskeletal pathologies, no back pain.
All 173 subjects were examined by the diagnostic part of the Computer Kinesiology method three times. Groups 1 and 2 were treated after every diagnostics.
Group 3 was not treated. The effect was evaluated by H score.
Improvements after therapy were defined by reducing the H score by at least 1 point. In Group 1 the H score decreased by at least 1 point in 87.3% (95% CI: 75.5-94.7) and in the Group 2 in 78.4% (95% CI: 64.7-88.7).
There was no change of distribution of H Score grade in Group 3. The improvement did neither depend on gender, age, BMI nor was influenced by the length of the therapy.
This study demonstrated a high therapeutic efficacy of the Computer Kinesiology system in the patients with back pain (Group 1) and the persons without back pain (Group 2) who used the Computer Kinesiology system for primary and secondary prevention of back pain.