title: The effects of aerobic exercise after lumbar microdiscectomy.
abstract: METHODS
  This study determined whether lumbar discectomy patients could endure an aerobic exercise program sufficient to achieve a training effect, and whether any functional advantages were derived.
  
  
  METHODS
  Trained volunteers (n = 19) were compared with untrained control subjects (n = 18) after a 12-week aerobic and rehabilitation exercise program. Subjects completed a maximal graded exercise test, a hydrostatic weighing test, and a battery of self-report inventories.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using a discriminant analysis, as a post hoc test, maximal oxygen consumption was found to be the factor responsible for the difference between the groups (P < 0.006).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Oxygen consumption was more than three times as important as any other single variable in differentiating between the groups.
authors.affiliation: Utah Back and Fitness Clinic, Salt Lake City, Utah.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Brennan
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Shultz
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Hood
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Zahniser
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Gerber
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D017586:Diskectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005080:Exercise Test; D017079:Exercise Tolerance / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000502:physiology*