Low Back Pain in Out-door Patient at the Department of Neurology at Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital in Bamako: Longitudinal, Descriptive and Prospective Study about 120 Patients

Youssoufa, Maiga; Mamadou, Zakaria

doi:10.4172/2167-0846.1000247

J Pain Relief

2016

DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000247

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Low Back Pain in Out-door Patient at the Department of Neurology at Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital in Bamako: Longitudinal, Descriptive and Prospective Study about 120 Patients

Maiga Youssoufa¹,

Zakaria Mamadou²

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“…In a study done by Maiga et. al14 in French population, the back pain was acute or subacute in 19% and chronic in 88.8% of patients. They had slightly higher percentage of patient in chronic low back pain group which might be due to relatively small sample size of their study.…”

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Clinical Profile of Patients Presenting with Low Back Pain to Out Patient Department of a Tertiary Level Hospital

Thapa

Lakhey

Shrestha

2020

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Introduction Low back pain is experienced by most of the people at some point of life. In our setting, there are very limited data on low back pain. This study aims to elaborate demographic and clinical profile of patients presenting to outpatient department of Orthopedics, in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital with complaints of low back pain. MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional observational study was carried out in 150 patients who presented with complaints of lower back pain in outpatient department of Orthopedics of TU Teaching Hospital from May to November 2019. The demographics including age, gender, occupation, and clinical data- duration of symptoms, body mass index, VAS score and radiculopathy along with Body Mass Index of each patient were recorded in a proforma separately. ResultsOut of total 150 patients, male: female ratio was 1:1.9. The average age of patients was 42.1 years The average height, weight and body mass index of patients were 157 cm, 61.81kg and 24.83kg/m2 respectively. The mean visual analogue score of patients was 5.41. Occupationally, predominant number of patients were housewives (41.3%). Seventy nine patients (52.7%) had low back pain alone. Seventy one patients (47.3%) had low back pain associated with radicular symptoms, out of which 74.6% had unilateral radiculopathy. ConclusionLow back pain is most commonly seen in fourth decade of life. More females as compared to males are affected with low back pain. The radiculopathy associated with low backache is mostly unilateral.

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Clinical Profile of Patients Presenting with Low Back Pain to Out Patient Department of a Tertiary Level Hospital

Thapa

Lakhey

Shrestha

2020

Journal of Institute of Medicine

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Low Back Pain in Out-door Patient at the Department of Neurology at Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital in Bamako: Longitudinal, Descriptive and Prospective Study about 120 Patients

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