Evaluating the effects of diet alone compared to diet coupled with strengthening exercises on anthropometric and sonographic characters in obese patients with chronic low back pain

Abstract

Background: This study was aimed to equate two frequently proficient methods of weight/fat loss and in turn how they influence the low back pain (non-specific) in the subjects falling under the category of grade I and II Obesity.

Subject and methods: 26 females and 26 male subjects with inactive lifestyle with age among 25- 40 years were allocated in two different assemblies on the basis of obesity grade I & II. All the participants were evaluated for their body mass/weight (BW), Pain perceptions (numeric Pain Rating Scale), Disability Index (Oswestry), Body Mass index (BMI), Waist to hip ratio (WHR), Body Fat mass/Fat mass (BFM/FM), lean Body Mass/Lean Mass (LBM/LM), Total Body Fat Percent (TBF %) & ultrasound for muscle thickness. Group A observed dieting (D) and group B was tracked for dieting with strengthening exercise (DS) training. Participants followed 42 days regimen after which all of them were evaluated again on same parameters. Results were analyzed on SPSS version 21.

Results: Diet plus Strengthening group showed affirmative changes nearly in all considerations including body mass/weight (0.00), Body Mass Index (0.00), Waist-hip ratio (0.01), BF percentage (0.00), Fat Mass (0.00), Lean Mass (0.01), pain scale (0.00), disability index (0.00) & Muscle thickness (0.00). Conversely, the Diet group reflected non-significant outcomes in Waist hip ratio (p-value 0.73), lean mass (p value 0.38) & Muscle thickness (p value >0.05)

Conclusion: In Comparison, 6 weeks of diet brought about the affirmative variations in NPRS and ODI but in all considerations DS group outweighed the D group.