Tração manual e seus benefícios em pacientes com dor lombar crônica

Abstract

Chronic low back pain can be caused by several factors, which can be functional, physiological or emotional. It is responsible for limiting countless people to a life of pain and discomfort. However, physiotherapy offers a collection of specializations, one of which is manual traction, which consists of a conservative treatment using only the hands, performing decompression of the vertebrae, providing numerous benefits to these patients. The main objective of this study was to describe the benefits of manual traction in patients with chronic low back pain. A systematic literature review was carried out, with research, identification and description, seeking a better solution for the problem being discussed in the present study. In the search results, a total of 128 articles were found. Of these, 4 were located in the SCIELO database, 25 articles in the PUBMED database and 99 articles in GOOGLE ACADÊMICO. After evaluation, 122 of these articles were eliminated due to their failure to meet the inclusion criteria or alignment with the research context. Only 6 articles remained with the aim of providing results and starting discussions. It was concluded that chronic low back pain can be caused by intrinsic and extrinsic factors such as muscle weakness, wear of intervertebral discs, misalignment of vertebrae, obesity, psychological problems, etc. As for its treatment, manual traction presented several benefits such as correction of joint displacement, muscle stretching, increase in intervertebral spaces, increase in range of motion in addition to improving pain and providing relaxation.