Prevalence of Low Back Pain among Engineering Students of Isra University

Introduction: Back ache can be defined as Pain at back with or with muscular spasm, which can be relieved by itself or may persist for long time. It is the most common problem in old age and in those who are prone for heavy weight lifting. Recently it is also observed in young students because of their prolong sitting in bad posture, motor biking for long time, sedentary life style and many more. The patients also suffered with pain radiating towards lower leg and sometimes up to the foot unilateral or may be bilateral (SCIATICA). Females are more prone to develop this pain because of deficiency of Vit-D and bone mineralization, whereas male gets trauma most commonly along with above described factors.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of low back pain among engineering students of ISRA University Hyderabad.

Material and Methods: It was a Cross sectional observational study, participants were requited from Isra university Hyderabad. All engineering students were included in the study (345) but only 286 responded. Both male and female students with age range >18 years-24 years, Healthy individuals, BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m². Exclusion Criteria was age <18 years, any Co morbidity, BMI >28 kg/m².

Results: Out of total number of participants, 15% engineering student respond that they had mild pain intensity which comes and goes, 50% out of total respond that their pain intensity is mild and persist.

Conclusion: In conclusion, in our study the younger students having backache is due to prolong sitting for study in bad posture, heavy weight lifting and long distance travelling specially on motor bike. Almost similar distribution of backache observed in both genders.

Author(s): Saba Sial*, Ahmad Qureshi, Rafia Hameed Shaikh and Shahmeer Chandio

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