{"id":13967,"date":"2023-11-15T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/visceral-treatment-for-non-specific-lumbar-back-pain\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:02:45","slug":"visceral-treatment-for-non-specific-lumbar-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/visceral-treatment-for-non-specific-lumbar-back-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Visceral treatment for non-specific lumbar back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visceral dysfunction (e.g. mobility or restricted motility) may be the underlying cause or contributing factor in the development of non-specific lumbar back pain (LBP) and can be treated with osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMT).<br \/>\nThe aim of this registered systematic review (CRD42018100633) was to determine the effectiveness of visceral mobilization for non-specific LBP and to investigate the association between changes in visceral range of motion and symptoms of LBP.<br \/>\nNovember 2018 peer-reviewed studies published in English or German were retrieved from the following databases: Medline, Cochrane library, Science Direct, PEDro, OSTMED.RD and Osteo web res. Articles identified in the search were screened using selection criteria based on title and abstract.<br \/>\nStudies were included after independent review of the full-text versions.<br \/>\nData extraction Study quality assessment (risk of bias tool and PEDro score) and data extraction (mean and standard deviation for patient-reported outcomes and impairments &#8211; pain measurements, function and ultrasound on changes in organ mobility) were performed by two independent authors.<br \/>\nDue to the heterogeneity of the study populations and methods, no meta-analysis was performed.<br \/>\nA total of four RCTs of medium to good methodological quality were included.<br \/>\nTwo studies reported significant short-term (less than 3 days) improvement in pain and visceral range of motion, although the clinical significance of these differences was unclear.<br \/>\nOne study reported significant long-term (52 weeks) differences in pain and one reported medium-term (6 weeks) differences in quality of life.<br \/>\nJacob Marten Switters, Stefan Podar, Luke Perraton, Zuzana Machotka, Is visceral manipulation beneficial for patients with low back pain?<br \/>\nA systematic review of the literature, International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, Volumes 33-34, 2019, 16-23.            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1746068919300112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1746068919300112<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review from 2019 investigated whether visceral manipulation is beneficial for patients with low back pain.<br \/>\nA total of four RCTs of moderate to good methodological quality were included.<br \/>\nTwo studies reported a significant short-term (less than 3 days) improvement in pain and visceral discomfort.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":29,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-osteopathy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}