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Low back pain is one of the main reasons for the use of health care and is a frequent health problem in children and adolescents. Several authors have shown that having low back pain in childhood increases the risk of suffering it as an adult. The objective of this work is to review the empirical evidence of physiotherapy treatments for low back pain in children and adolescents, estimate their efficacy and analyze the methodological quality of the studies. Experimental studies were consulted in the Cochrane, ISI Web of Knowledge, Medline, PEDro and LILACS databases, specialized electronic journals and other procedures. Eight articles were included in the systematic review, which resulted in 16 independent studies (11 treated groups and 5 control groups). The 8 selected articles included treatments with back education, exercise, manual therapy, and therapeutic physical conditioning. Treatment with exercise is the most used by the authors. It is concluded that physiotherapy treatments are effective for low back pain in children and adolescents. Finally, the quality of future studies should be improved through more effective blinding procedures, use of control groups, and reliability analysis of the assessment instruments.
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