Reliability and Sensitivity of Shuttle Walk Test in Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain Patients Mishra Priyadarshini1, Ayyapan J2, Kumar VPR Shiv3 1HOD/Asst. Professor, College of Physiotherapy, Neelachal Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 2Asst Professor, SRM College of Physiotherapy, Kattankulathur, Chennai 3Dean, SRM College of Physiotherapy, Kattankulathur, Chennai Online published on 19 June, 2015. Abstract Purpose The purpose of the study is to test reliability and sensitivity of shuttle walk test in chronic mechanical low back pain patient. Objective This study is to test the reliability and sensitivity of shuttle walk test in patients with chronic mechanical LBP to assess their functional disability. Method It is a non experimental design type of study with a sample size of 30. Results Karl Pearson's correlation coefficients were used to analyze the relationship SWT and functional disability. Reliability of the test was found to be very significant but sensitivity didn't have much significance. Discussion In this study a sample of patients of chronic low back pain were taken without any particular work aspect in consideration. Three times walking was administered with specific recordings by pulse oximeter and the therapist. FROST et al (1995) extended the use of shuttle walk test to measure functional capacity in patients with chronic low back pain. This study shows that shuttle walk test has a reliability as a measure of functional capacity in patients with chronic low back pain where as it didn't find much on aspect of sensitivity of the test. Thus shuttle walk test fulfils the basic norms as a measure of functional capacity in patients with chronic low back pain. Analytical values of the physiological baseline measurement showed no significance difference between the two days of test. Conclusion The study conducted showed good reliability and low sensitivity of shuttle walk test as a measure of functional capacity in patients with chronic low back pain Top Keywords SWT- Shuttle Walk Test, LBP -Low Back Pain. Top |