PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY IN THE POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD OF HERNIATED DISCS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Lumbar disc herniation is an extremely common disease  that occurs with high prevalence today, affecting 5.4 million Brazilians. It is recognized that 30 to 40% of the adult population of the world has asymptomatic lumbar disc herniation and 80% of this same population has or will have low back pain. The objective is to verify the physiotherapeutic treatments in the postoperative period of lumbar disc herniation in adults of both sexes. The search for the articles involved in this work will begin in August 2019 and end in July 2020, and will be carried out in three bibliographic databases: PubMed, SciELO, PEDro. Conducting research in the aforementioned databases using the following key terms: "Postoperative", "physiotherapy", "AND", "lumbar disc herniation", "postoperative rehabilitation", "OR", "physiotherapy", "AND", "lumbar disc herniation", "postoperative", "AND", "herniated disc", "AND", "physiotherapy", "physiotherapy", "in", "postoperative" of "herniated disc", "physiotherapy", "AND", "lumbar disc herniation", "AND", "postoperative". All the articles found will be read in full and it should be noted that all those calculated by the PEDro scale will remain. We found 20 articles, from which 10 relevant studies were used that answered the questions constructed by the authors, with different physical therapy treatments aimed at a recovery with more assertive results. The studies analyzed report that early physical therapy is extremely important for the postoperative period of lumbar disc herniation, containing several benefits for the health of patients who underwent this surgical intervention.