Evaluación osteopática de disfunciones biomecánicas de la articulación sacroilíaca y su asociación con el dolor lumbar crónico en pacientes que asisten al Centro de Medicina Física y Rehabilitación del Hospital Luis Vernaza de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The dysfunctions of the sacroiliac joint can generate chronic low back pain. The objective of this work is to determine the relationship between the biomechanical dysfunctions of the sacroiliac joint and chronic low back pain in patients attending the Center for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Luis Vernaza Hospital in the city of Guayaquil. The methodological approach is quantitative, with descriptive, non-experimental and cross-sectional design and with a population sample of 60 patients. The results obtained determine that 87% of the patients evaluated presented dysfunction in the sacroiliac joint, with 60% having the right anterior iliac fixation. With these data we can conclude that sacroiliac dysfunction was not found in all patients, because chronic low back pain has a multifactorial origin and the aforementioned joint would not be the only cause, but the percentage is significant to determine that if the relationship exists between chronic low back pain and sacroiliac joint in the patients evaluated.