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Volume 8

Journal of Novel Physiotherapies

ISSN: 2165-7025

Novel Physiotherapies 2018

March 19-20,, 2018

March 19-20, 2018 | Berlin, Germany

International Conference and Expo on

Novel Physio

therapies

J Nov Physiother 2018, Volume 8

DOI: 10.4172/2165-7025-C1-024

Evidence based physiotherapy treatment for ankylosis spondylitis

Erika Cyrus Barker

Head of Physical Therapy department, University of Santa paula, Costa Rica

atients with ankylosing spondylitis, have an increased risk of functional limitation if adequate treatment of all functional

alterations is not performed. Pain is not the only symptom to be treated in patients with this condition, there are functional

alterations characteristic of the disease, as well as alterations of the environment and the role of life that directly influence the

well-being and functionability of patients. The main alterations presented by ankylosing spondylitis are pain and stiffness

caused by inflammation of the sacroiliac joints, which progressively extends to the other joints of the spine, producing

numerous changes in the patient's posture physiotherapy treatment in ankylosing spondylitis plays a very important role

both in the prevention of the evolutionary process of the disease and in the treatment of the disease once the symptoms have

appeared. Thus, one of the tools that the physiotherapist has for the treatment of as in the long term is the therapeutic exercise.

A study by Viitanen et al. provides a very important data for our investigation, the results showed that the duration of the

disease does not affect the results; or in other words, that the effects of physical exercise on these patients are independent of the

progress of the disease, or of the stage of the pathology in which the patient is found, so that age would not be an inconvenience

for the inclusion of these patients in a physical exercise program. It should be noted that all the exercises of the program must

be related to the alterations that patients of ankylosing spondylitis suffer as a result of it. Not all exercises are beneficial for this

affectation. The present bibliographic review is accompanied by a proposal based on a series of case studies, the results of which

have allowed patients in this condition to maintain an active life with minimal limitations in function.