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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore the behaviour pain among the low
back pain. Objective: To identify the socio-demography information, pain nature,
aggravating and relives factors, response of medication and previous intervention
before receiving physiotherapy treatment. Methodology: A cross sectional study was
conducted with a structured and close ended interviewer administered questionnaire to
collect information from 130 low back pain patients in respects through convenience
sampling technique. Data was numerically coded and captured in Microsoft excel,
using an SPSS 16.0 version software program. Results: This study was found that,
this survey showed female participants about 60% and 40% was male. Females are
more affected and 46.2% were house wives. The vulnerable age range is 30 to 49
years for low back pain. Most of the patients were less educated about primary level
were 34%, in this study shows that the 78% patients had intermittent and moderate
pain. Pain is aggravated by flexion movement 97%, relief 91% low back pain by
taking rest, about 64% patients have gradual symptom, pain radiates 43.8% are leg,
for which 89.2% people were affected on ADL due to pain, medication was response
in 95% and 81% patients were take previous intervention. 44.6% were goes to general
practitionar and 42.3% were partially effective. Conclusion: This result of the current
study would help to know the nature of pain, severity of pain, relevant symptom of
pain for low back pain. It is seriously affecting the quality of their social and working
lives. Very few were managed by pain specialists and nearly half received inadequate
pain management. |
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