It is typical of chronic low back pain that, after the first painful episode, is repeated at 44-78% of patients. For acute lumbar pain, approx. 10-15% of them are converted into chronic. Conservative treatments are few studies done in the traction therapy. A large number of multicenter trials did not evaluate the effectiveness of underwater traction therapy.

Goals are the followings:

1. Is the beneficial effect of a weight bath comparable to a non-treated control group with respect to clinical parameters?
2. How much does the quality of life change in an initial state and how much is it in comparison with the control group?

Inclusion Criteria:

• at least 12 weeks of non-specific lymphatic pain,

• the pain sensitivity of the paravertebral muscle and the painful movement of the lumbar spine can be observed, which can be characterized by segmental motion, segmental instability or other reasons

• radiographically confirmed spondylosis, discopathy, and spondylarthrosis within one year.

• back pain at least 30mm (100mm visualis analogue scale).

• patients could not received systemic or locally administered steroid therapy, physiotherapy or they get balneotherapy in the last 2 months

  p- atient consent form signed before the start of test

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criteria included previous lumbar spine surgery,
• progressive neurologic loss,
• pregnancy,
• (umbilical, hiatal, inguinal) hernia,
• malignities,
• infectious diseases,
• inflammatory pathologies,
• severe pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases,
• uncontrolled- hypertension,
• mental disorders,
• incontinence,
• Acute lower back pain;
• Organic neurological symptoms associated with the lower back;
• pain in the background of osteoporosis or other causes of vertebral compression is likely
• Lack of complience,
• Pain due to inflammatory spinal disease;
• spondylolisthesis (which is not greater than 25% of vertebral skeleton compared to adjacent vertebrae)

Patients are selected from on the Outpatients clinics of the Department of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy of Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, Budapest