Abstract

This work was developed at the Dr. Publio Escobar Gómez Hospital in Ecuador. The objective is to reduce pain and tone the abdominal and back muscles in adults with lumbosciatica through the application of hypopressive abdominal training to help reintroduce the adult to their work and social activities. We worked with a population of 25 male and female adult patients, with an age range from 30 to 50 years old. To process the collected data, we determined that classical statistics are too restrictive in terms of the hypotheses to fulfill. For example, the initial evaluation employing the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) that assesses the intensity of pain is subjective and depends on the pain threshold of each patient, moreover, the size of the population is not large (

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