Low Back Pain Prevalence

Low Back Pain Prevalence in Young Adults.

Brief Summery: Low back pain is a significant, serious and widespread problem in our world today, both in terms of social and economic burdens. It should be emphasized that even the young adult age group is very often affected by non-specific, low back pain without proven pathoanatomical changes.

The aim of our current study is to assess the prevalence of low back pain among young adults, and we would like to examine the musculoskeletal and psychosocial factors associated with low back pain that can be justified as risk factors. Our further goal is to assess and compare lumbar sensorimotor control in young people without complaints and with low back pain.

Inclusion Criteria:

• in case of patients with low back pain: chronic pain
• in case of asymptomatic individuals: no symptomes

Exclusion Criteria:

• serious neurologycal symptomes
• serious scoliosis
• previous surgery which affected the local stabilizers
• serious pulmonar disease