Abstract
ObjectiveTo analyze the current scientific evidence to know the effects of stretching in patients with low back pain. Research strategyThe research was carried out in January 2014 using Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, WOS, LILACS and PubMed. Study selectionA total of 350 papers, published between 2009 and 2014, were review. Of these, 12 were finally selected for review after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. ResultsStretching of posterior muscle chain was done in many of the articles. In one article, the nervous tissue was stretched, and in another, muscle stretching was compared with neural mobilization. ConclusionsIn general, stretching resulted in positives results. The methodological quality of the papers analyzed was low. Therefore, more studies with better quality and larger samples sizes are needed to verify the good results.
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