LBP causes the patient’s overall activity to decrease, and long-term inactivity of the body will weaken muscular strength and cause amyotrophia. The decreased pain level that was observed in this research showed that Pilates exercises prevent amyotrophia by lessening the patient’s pain, hence preventing inactivity. Although both PME and PAE resulted in a significant decrease in pain level in the participants,
the improvement from PME was greater.