The Effects of Dance Therapy in Women With Chronic Low Back Pain

"Dance therapy group patients are going to be treated 3 days a week for 8 weeks. Patients who started treatment are going to be randomly divided into groups that includes four individuals, due to COVID-19 pandemic preventions.~Dance therapy is going to be applied with individualized choreographies specially prepared for the patients, taking the expert opinion of the dance therapist. Choreographies of different dance genres (step/aerobic dance, zumba, salsa, bachata, oriental etc.) are going to be used in the program. Sessions are going to be with the practitioner in a bright, clean, empty and noiseless room in front of a full-length wall mirror. The practitioner is going to participate to dance therapy throughout the sessions, allowing patients to imitate movements. Session duration is going to be 40 minutes. Patients will be given a one-minute rest period during music transitions."

"The patients in the control group is going to perform conventional low back exercises. The program of the patients will start with stretching and warming exercises, and will continue with strengthening exercises.~Exercises planed for control group;~1. Unilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise)~2. Bilateral hip-knee flexion (self-assisted exercise)~3. Straight leg lifting with the aid of a sheet/rigid band~4. Posterior pelvic tilt~5. Bridge building exercise~6. Cat-camel exercise~7. Half shuttle in sagittal plane~8. Right and left rotational shuttle~9. Trunk hyperextension in prone position~10. Rotational exercise with hip-knee flexed in supine position Patients are going to do exercises with ten repetitions. As the sessions progressed, the number of repetitions will be increased."

20 minutes hotpack, 3-5 minutes ultrasound and 20 minutes conventional type Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are going to be applied to lumbar region of all patients in prone position.