Método McKenzie no tratamento de pacientes com dores crônicas na coluna lombar- revisão de literatura

Abstract

Introduction: Low back pain is the second leading cause of consultations for pain in the world, surpassed only by headache. The highest occurrence is in females aged between 40 and 80 years. The Mckenzie method is a manual therapy technique that uses the patient's own movements to relieve pain and restore function and focuses on the spine and its peripheral joints. Objectives: to analyze, through a literary review, the effects of the McKenzie method in the treatment of patients with chronic low back pain. Methodology: This is a literature review study, databases such as DECS (Health Sciences Descriptors), Bireme (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information), LILACS (Latin American Literature and the Caribbean in Health Sciences), SciELO (Virtual Health Library), Brazilian Journal on pain and PUBMED, with articles in English, Portuguese and Spanish. The search for articles was from January 2022 to December 2022. Results: For the preparation of the work, nine articles were used in full, in which they addressed the Mckenzie method in the treatment of low back pain, and 6 obtained a significant improvement in the intensity of the pain. Conclusion: After analyzing the literature review studies, it is concluded that the studies that used the method with a longer duration and a greater number of sessions tend to obtain significant improvements, mainly with regard to the intensity of the patient's pain, as in acute, subacute and chronic low back pain of other benefits such as improvement of dysfunction, reduction of symptoms and an improvement in quality of life and activities of daily living.