AGE BASED INCIDENCE OF THE LOWER BACK PAIN IN BIHAR POPULATION

Abstract

In India, nearly 60 percent of the people have significant back pain at some time or the other in their life. Based on the literature findings the present study was aimed at finding the prevalence of low back pain and to examine its association with their demographic details.

The present study was planned by enrolling total 50 patients suffered from back pain. The patients suffered from the back for more than 4 weeks and having age 20 to 65 years were enrolled in the present study. The patients visited to Out Patient Department (OPD) and in-patient department (IPD) of Department of Orthopaedics Patna medical college and hospital From Feb 2017to July 2017 were considered in the study.

The data generated from the above study indicates that the poorer and more socially disadvantaged groups have a proportionally higher burden of this disabling symptom than the better off in society. While the etiological importance of these remains uncertain, back pain affords a clear example of the unequal experience of the socio economic status in the society.

Keywords: Back pain, age, socioeconomic status etc.