Individualized exercise best for easing lower back pain, study says
Individualized exercise best for easing lower back pain, study says By (0) Chronic lower back pain can make the most routine tasks difficult. But a new study suggests patients can learn new, practical and less painful ways to move through individualized "motor skills training," or MST. A two-year study of nearly 150 patients found that MST appears to better relieve disability from lower back pain than a more common but less-tailored exercise regimen broadly focused on improving strength and flexibility. Advertisement "Our findings suggest that motor skill training in functional activities i...