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The purpose of this study is to figure out the pain-reducing effect of manual resistive exercise therapy by applying it to chronic low back pain patients. This study performed manual resistive exercise therapy four times a week during four weeks on 9 male and 14 female patients suffering from chronic low back pain caused by herniated lumbar disc and degenerative disc disease who visited N hospital located in Seoul. In order to measure the change of pain, this study used visual analogue scale, a pain profile with high confidence and validity. In addition, this study applied Patrick's test to measure the change of knee height of affected and unaffected side. Before exercise, this study indicated knee height of affected and unaffected side and pain as scores, and measured the change of knee height and pain of affected and unaffected side after two and four weeks of exercise. For processing data, this study used SPSS 15.0 program to calculate the average and standard deviation of each item. In order to analyze the difference of the period of each group, this study performed one-way ANOVA and set the significance level as p<.05. The results are as follows: First, after applying manual resistive exercise therapy, the change of pain showed significant decrease after four weeks of exercise(p<.001). Second, after applying manual resistive exercise therapy, the change of knee height of affected side showed significant decrease after four weeks of exercise(p<.001). Third, after applying manual resistive exercise therapy, the change of knee height of unaffected side showed significant decrease after four weeks of exercise(p<.001). Fourth, after applying manual resistive exercise therapy, the change of knee height difference between affected and unaffected side showed significant decrease after four weeks of exercise(p<.001). The above results show that manual resistive exercise therapy is effective for reducing pain of chronic low back pain patients suffering from herniated lumbar disk and degenerative disc disease and it also reduced the knee height difference between affected and unaffected side. In conclusion, manual resistive exercise therapy is effective for reducing pain of chronic low back pain patients and it will be even more effective if it is performed together with other exercise therapies.