Aerobic exercise therapy for chronic low back pain

Annemarie de Zoete; Wilhelmina IJzelenberg; Raymond Wjg Ostelo; Jill A Hayden; Sidney M Rubinstein

doi:10.1002/14651858.CD015503

Aerobic exercise therapy for chronic low back pain

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 Jun 3;6(6):CD015503. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015503.

Authors

Annemarie de Zoete^{1

2}, Wilhelmina IJzelenberg¹, Raymond Wjg Ostelo^{1

3}, Jill A Hayden⁴, Sidney M Rubinstein¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science and Amsterdam Movement Sciences research institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
² Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.

Abstract

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of aerobic exercise on pain, function, quality of life, psychological functioning, and adverse events, compared with placebo, sham treatment, attention control, or no treatment.

MeSH terms

Chronic Pain* / therapy
Exercise Therapy* / methods
Exercise*
Humans
Low Back Pain* / therapy
Quality of Life
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic