The Effectiveness of Kinesio Taping in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Effectiveness of Kinesio Taping and Conventional Physical Therapy in the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain

The objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of Kinesio taping (KT) with Conventional Physical therapy (CPT) - Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Supervised Exercise therapy and CPT in the management of CLBP.

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most common causes of chronic disability which leads to major social and economic consequences. The role and effectiveness of the Kinesio taping (KT) and Conventional Physical therapy (CPT) are evident from the existing literature but no comparison was found on the combination of other physical therapy techniques such as supervised exercise therapy and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) with CLBP in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pain caused by mechanical/nonspecific low back pain.
• Degeneration of the spine and intervertebral disc.
• The visual analog scale of pain 4 and above
• Low back pain for at least three months

Exclusion Criteria:

• Physical therapy treatment is taken in the past 6 months period
• Previous spinal surgery with fixation
• Structural anomalies
• Spinal cord compression
• Severe osteoporosis
• Acute infections
• Severe cardiovascular or metabolic diseases
• Pregnant women