Giemza Czesław, Matczak-Giemza Magdalena, Ostrowska Bożena, Bieć Ewa, Doliński Mirosław
Faculty of Physiotherapy, University School of Physical Education , Wrocław , Poland .
Aging Male. 2014 Sep;17(3):183-8. doi: 10.3109/13685538.2013.863860. Epub 2013 Dec 5.
Whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) is a procedure which is more and more often successfully applied in medicine. Used in physiotherapy programs improves the efficiency of physiotherapeutic exercises applied in different aliments. The aim of the research was to determine the influence of WBC treatment on the improvement of spine activity in elderly men. The evaluation was based on subjects suffering from chronic lower back pain. The research was conducted on 96 male in the age of 65-75 years suffering from chronic pain in the lumbar spine, lasting >3 months. All the subjects performed physical exercises at a gym. Half of the examined patients performed only physical exercises while the second half of the group participated in WBC before performing the same exercises. The research evaluated the mobility of lumbar spine at all movement planes and examined the values of active potentials of erector spinae in the lumbar part of the spine. The group of men who participated in WBC showed significantly lower values of active potentials of erector spinae muscles in the lumbar part of the spine and a significant increase in the range of the lumbar spine mobility, in comparison to the group which did not use WBC.
全身冷冻疗法（WBC）是一种在医学领域越来越多地成功应用的治疗方法。在物理治疗方案中使用可提高应用于不同疾病的物理治疗练习的效率。该研究的目的是确定全身冷冻疗法治疗对老年男性脊柱活动改善的影响。评估基于患有慢性下背痛的受试者。该研究对96名年龄在65 - 75岁、患有腰椎慢性疼痛且持续时间超过3个月的男性进行。所有受试者都在健身房进行体育锻炼。一半的受试患者只进行体育锻炼，而另一半在进行相同锻炼前接受全身冷冻疗法。该研究评估了腰椎在所有运动平面的活动度，并检测了脊柱腰部竖脊肌的动作电位值。与未使用全身冷冻疗法的组相比，参与全身冷冻疗法的男性组脊柱腰部竖脊肌的动作电位值显著降低，腰椎活动范围显著增加。
