Vertebral Column Height Andpredisposition To Low Back Pain- Observational Study
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Vertebral column, Low back ache, VAS score, Bilateral SLR.Abstract
Background and purpose: Research was done to find out the relationship between lumbar lordosis and radiologic variables, lumbar lordosis and clinical variables, which showed that lordosis itself, do not have any predisposition to low back pain. Weak abdominal muscles are also associated with low back pain. As no previous study was done to correlate vertebral column height and low back pain, this study is intended to analyze whether these variables are predisposed to low back pain.
Case description (Subjects): 200 subjects were approached through systematic convenient sampling which included 100 people (50 males and 50 females) with back pain and 100 people (50 male and 50 female without back pain).
Intervention and methods: Subjects for the study were assessed according to the following parameters; vertebral column height, abdominal girth measurement, bilateral SLR, hip waist ratio, VAS scale.
Results: Pain scores correlated significantly to the length of spinal segment mainly cervical spine (p=0.05) and lumbar spine (p=0.01) and also to bilateral SLR hold time (p=0.01). The bilateral SLR correlates significantly to a Total spine length and length of thoracic spine (p=0.01) while there was no correlation between bilateral hold time and length of cervical spine.
Conclusion: This study has found that the length of the spinal column should be given due importance when assessing the risk of developing low back pain.
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