Exercise Therapy for Low Back Pain

Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who work with adults reporting low back pain in outpatient, hospital, workplace, or community settings.

Licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants. The material is also relevant to rehabilitation staff who deliver or supervise exercise programs for people with low back pain.

Intended audience

Physical Therapy

Level

Intermediate

Delivery format

Online, asynchronous, self-paced course: interactive reading with audio or video, and a scored post-test.

Based on

Viderman, D.; Kalikanov, S.; Myrkhiyeva, Z.; Alisherov, S.; Dossov, M.; Seitenov, S.; Abdildin, Y. Impact of Exercise Therapy on Outcomes in Patients with Low Back Pain: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2025, volume 14, article 5942. Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

This course reports what that umbrella review looked at, what the included reviews said, and what its authors concluded. It does not add findings from any other source, and it does not issue clinical instructions of its own.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe the scope of the umbrella review, including the kind of evidence it pooled, the population covered, and the outcomes it tracked.
2. State what the included reviews reported for pain, disability, and quality of life after exercise therapy for low back pain, and which exercise types appeared most often.
3. Explain the main limitations the authors identified, including the methodological quality of the included reviews and the difficulty of separating exercise from the other treatments bundled with it.

1. Start Here: How This Course Works
2. Podcast: Exercise Therapy for Low Back Pain (about eight minutes)
3. What the Umbrella Review Set Out to Cover
4. How the Reviewers Gathered and Graded the Evidence
5. What the 88 Reviews Reported About Pain, Disability, and Quality of Life
6. Where the Evidence Runs Thin
7. What the Authors Say It Could Mean for Care
8. Key Takeaways
9. Post-Test and Course Evaluation

Quinn Millington, PT, DPT, ECS is the instructor of record: the licensed clinician who reviewed this course and signed off on it. The name and credentials print on the certificate.

Disclosures. This course was developed by The ConEd Solution, which has a financial interest in its sale. No outside funding or sponsorship was received. The instructor of record has no affiliation with the authors of the source publication or their institutions.

This course awards 0.5 contact hours (30 min). How you earn them:

1. Complete the course. Every lesson, in order.
2. Pass the post-test. Score 80% or higher. Retakes are allowed.
3. Complete the evaluation. A short form rating each learning objective and the course.
4. Download your certificate. It is issued on completion and stays available in My Account.

The episode time is its measured length. Reading, post-test and evaluation times are estimates.

This course is designed to satisfy the quality requirements state boards set for continuing education. Requirements vary by state, and confirming that a course fits your renewal is up to you. Each state’s own acceptance statement is in the credit panel on this page.

1. Source materialViderman, D.; Kalikanov, S.; Myrkhiyeva, Z.; Alisherov, S.; Dossov, M.; Seitenov, S.; Abdildin, Y. Impact of Exercise Therapy on Outcomes in Patients with Low Back Pain: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2025, volume 14, article 5942. Open access under a Creative Commons Attribution license.This course reports what that umbrella review looked at, what the included reviews said, and what its authors concluded. It does not add findings from any other source, and it does not issue clinical instructions of its own.