Prevelance Of Postural Related Low Back Pain In Children

Prevelance Of Postural Related Low Back Pain

Abstract

In recent years, the developments of pain in low back have become widespread, alarmingly among children.

Objective: To find out the prevalence of Postural related low back pain in children.

Methods: A Japanese orthopedic questionnaire based research was undertaken to detect the occurrence of posture associated low back pain among 152 children (11-18 years). Collected data were treated statistically by SPSS version 21.0.

Results: Minimum age of participants was 11.00 and maximum age was 18.00 years. The study included 152 schools going children, out of 152 children, 83(54.61%) reported low back pain and 69(45.39%) reported no pain.

Conclusions: The study concluded that bad posture habits, prolonged sitting, bending while studying and uncomfortable school / academy furniture on daily basis were the main causes of low back pain, chronicity of back pain eventually leads to disability.