ABSTRACT
Background: Low back pain and obesity common health problems in developed countries and may lead to various degree of work-related disability and variation from normal biomechanics in the vertebral column. Obesity has been shown to impair the activity of daily life. This medical problem increases the high economic burden on primary and secondary health care. Increasing mechanical demands by increasing BMI is considered as causing LBP through highly load-bearing.
AIM: Aim of the study was to determine whether BMI influence the risk of non specific LBP
Method: A total 337 patients were included in the study. We divided patients as underweight, overweight, normal, and obese according to BMI. The Oswestry low back pain questionnaire is considered as Gold standard and is commonly used for LBP. For statistical analysis, we use sample T-test for association. Non-probability sampling used to recruit the study participants.
Result: Patients are included 180(53.4%) were male and 157(46.6%) were female reported LBP. The ratio of male patients was more than female but female report more pain intensity than male, mean intensity of pain in the male = 1.35 and in female mean intensity of pain in female = 2.18. When we statistically analyze data in SPSS, in T-test the value is less than 0.05 which shows strong association with LBP and BMI.
CONCLUSION: This study shows that both LBP and BMI are strongly associated with each other. Increasing body weight is a strongly risk factor for causing LBP.
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