Analysis on Structural Variation and Disability Index of Spinal-Pelvic in the High School Students with Low Back Pain.
10.5763/kjsm.2014.32.1.27
- Author:
Young Moo NA
1
;
Tae Won YOO
;
Seon Hee IM
;
Seung Ho CHOI
;
Hyung Tae IM
;
Young Jae CHO
;
Hee Seong JEONG
Author Information
1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, SOL Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Low back pain;
Structural variation;
Korean version of the Oswestry disability index;
High school student
- MeSH:
Back Pain;
Female;
Humans;
Incidence;
Low Back Pain*;
Male;
Prevalence
- From:The Korean Journal of Sports Medicine
2014;32(1):27-36
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence rate of low back pain (LBP) in the high school students and to analyze the differences and correlations with the spinal-pelvic structural variations and disability index with LBP. The subjects are 499 high school students (236 males, 263 females: mean age, 16.38 years). They were assessed for LBP with the numerical rating scale (NRS) and for disability with the Korean version Oswestry disability index (KODI). All subjects were to take the plain radiographic examination for spinal-pelvic structural variations including thoracic, lumbar, thoracolumbar Cobb's angle, lumbar lordotic curve, sacral slope, pelvic tilt and pelvic incidence. All subjects were divided into two groups by NRS scores (0, 1=no/minimum pain group [NMP group], 2-10=low back pain group [LBP group]). The prevalence rate of LBP of all subjects was 56.7% (n=283). NRS and total KODI scores were higher in the LBP group (3.38 cm/11.83%) than NMP group (0.07 cm/2.74%) (p<0.001). In the spinal-pelvic structural variations analysis, the thoracic Cobb's angle was significantly high in LBP group (p<0.05), but others were shown no differences between the both groups (p>0.05). NRS had significantly positive correlation with KODI (p<0.001). NRS and KODI did not demonstrate any correlations with spinal-pelvic structural variations (p>0.05). In conclusion, this study showed high prevalence rate of LBP in the high school students, but did not show significant correlations with the spinal-pelvic structural variations and disability index.
