A CASE REPORT ON LOW BACK PAIN
Journal Title: Journal of Biological and Scientific Opinion - Year 2013, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
Nowadays low back pain becomes a major health problem in India. The reason may be a number of factors like excessive use of bikes for long travelling, travelling in irregular hard pathways, sleeping in irregular posture, and sitting for long time in improper posture, night awakening, and irregular food habits. Low back pain (LBP) affects approximately 60 – 85 % of adults during some point in their life time. Fortunately, for majority of individuals, symptoms are mild and transient, with 90 % subsiding within 6 weeks. Chronic low back pain is defined as pain symptoms persisting beyond 3 months, affects an estimated 15 – 45 % of the population. For the minority with intractable symptoms, the impact on quality of life and economic implications are considerable. Despite the high prevalence of low back pain within the general population, the diagnostic approach and therapeutic options are diverse and often inconsistent, resulting in rising costs and variability in management throughout the country. In part, this is due to the difficulty in establishing a clear etiology for most of the patients. Back pain has been termed as “an illness in search of a disease.” Indeed, once “red flag” diagnoses such as cancer and fracture have been ruled out, the differential sources of low back pain remain broad, including the extensive realm of degenerative changes within the axial spine for which radiological evaluation is nonspecific and causal relationship sare tentative. Moreover the treatment of choice in allopathic medicine is pain killers, steroids and surgery etc., which will give rise to many side effects and various health hazards. Hence it is very much essential to find out a suitable solution for proper diagnosis and treatment for its long term cure without any side effects.
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R. Supraja
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