Effectiveness of Muscles Energy Technique in the Management of Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

"The Dynamic stabilization exercises will consist of seven exercises, which are aimed to strengthen the lumbar stabilizing muscles. All seven dynamic stabilization exercises will be performed once and always in random order.~The procedure for MET involves voluntary contraction of the participant's muscle in a precisely controlled direction, at varying levels of intensity, against a distinctly executed counterforce applied by the therapist. In this type of therapy, a participant contracts muscles by pushing against resistance provided by the therapist. The therapist then assists the participant in stretching, strengthening and relaxing those muscles."

The DSE in this arm is the same a described in group A, i.e. it involves seven exercises activities administered randomly at every session of the study intervention.

In the control group, the participants will receive standard physiotherapy treatment offered for the management of chronic NSLBP patients in Nigeria. Therefore, individuals randomized to this therapeutic group will be treated with classical massage, therapeutic exercises and a combination of interferential therapy and therapeutic ultrasound (INF/UTS) applied to the lumbosacral region.