[Validation of an evaluation test of activities of daily living behaviour for patients with chronic low back pain].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to validate an evaluation test of the gesture behaviour for patients with chronic low back pain.


METHODS
Forty-four patients (19 females and 25 males) (45.7 +/- 10.8 years) with chronic low back pain (delay of pain: 9.8 +/- 9.0 years) took part in an educational back school program. They performed 3 tests at the beginning (pre-test), at the end (post-test) and three months after the back school program (control): a visual analogic scale, the Dallas questionnaire and a gesture evaluation test that is composed of three tasks for the pre-test and five tasks for the post-test and the control session.


RESULTS
Our gesture test was reproducible and sensible. The mean gesture result increased significantly after the back school program (39.6 +/- 23.2 % in the pre-test and 73.4 +/- 12.5 % in the post-test, p < 0.05) and was stabilized at this high level (69 +/- 18.8 %) for the control session. The patients demonstrated abilities to transfer an appropriate gesture behaviour to new tasks.


CONCLUSIONS
This study validated a gesture behaviour test for the patient with chronic low back pain. The use of this test during a back school program demonstrated an immediate and long lasting effect on the appropriate gesture behaviour. However the algo-functional status was increased more belatedly and more modestly.
Vanderthommen
M
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mvanderthommen@ulg.ac.be
Boulanger
A S
AS
Defaweux
M
M
Tomasella
M
M
Crielaard
J M
JM
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D026761:Physical Therapy Specialty; D011187:Posture; D011594:Psychometrics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome