Scoping Review: Should Physiotherapists Recommend Swimming to Patients with Low Back Pain and is Further Research Indicated?

Acknowledgements and ethical approval This review was carried out in the first year of my part time PhD at Canterbury Christ Church University. The fees for the first year were part funded by the CSP charitable trust. I am very grateful for their support. This piece of work was part of a scoping review and therefore did not require ethical approval as it did not involve participants or a change in treatment or care. Muscle activity: Lower in the water [10] EMG different between land and water exercise [11] Pain: Swimming able to modulate nociceptive, inflammatory and neuropathic pain and central sensitisation in rodents [5-9] Pain more likely during land exercise than in water [11] Stature recovery: Greater and more rapid in water [1]