Exercise Therapy for Back Pain:Expert Consensus

Low back pain (LBP) is a major public health challengein adults allover the world, and the lifetime prevalence of LBP is shown to be 84%. In October 2016, the State Council of China released the outline of the “Healthy China 2030” plan. This outline put forward that the national fitness campaign should be carried out extensively, the integration of exercise and medicine, nonmedical health interventions should be strengthened. To further improve the treatment level of low back pain through exercise therapy, the expert group, which is composed of experts in sports science, rehabilitation science and orthopedics in China, organized and formulated the “Exercise therapy for low back pain: expert consensus”. This consensus is graded by searching literatures from searched international and domestic databases and referring to the evidence level of oxford centre for evidence based medicine (OCEBM) , According to the current situation of " the integration of exercise and medical services, non-medical health interventions" in China, the standardization and recommendation of exercise therapy for low back pain is for mulated in line with Chinese characteristics, and this consensus aims to guide the practice of physical therapy and promote the concept of “exercise is medicine”.