Prevalence of pathologies causing low Back pain Using MRI

تاریخ : جولائی ۲۰۲۰ - فروری ۲۰۲۱

<div><p>Abstract</p> <p>Objective: Low back pain (LBP) is one of the top ten causes of visits to hospitals. Literature review shows that 84%</p> <p>of people have low back pain at some stages of their lives. Therefor the present research study was conducted to find</p> <p>out the prevalence of pathologies causing low back pain using Magnetic Resonance Imaging.</p> <p>Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in a private tertiary care hospital Peshawar. The sample size</p> <p>was 142, calculated by Rao Soft calculator. The study was conducted during May-August 2020. Data were collected</p> <p>from patients coming to the radiology department for lumber scan MRI and analysed by SPSS version 22.</p> <p>Results: A total of 142 patients having low back pain including 73 male and 69 females were examined. Degenerative</p> <p>disc diseases (82.3%) were the commonest pathologies. There were a total of 117(82.3%) cases of degenerative disc</p> <p>disease, 09 (6.33%) cases of the traumatic lesion, 08 (5.63%) cases of the congenital lesion, and 5 (3.5%) patients with</p> <p>neoplastic lesions. In this study, there were 44 cases of spinal stenosis, 68 cases of nerve compression. The commonest</p> <p>type of herniation was disc bulge (81.30%) and the most affected lumbar vertebral level by disc bulge was LV4/LV5.</p> <p>Conclusions: This population-based study shows the prevalence of pathologies causing low back. Males were</p> <p>more affected as compared to females and people with Middle Ages were at increased risk of experiencing low back</p> <p>pain. Degenerative disc diseases (82.3%) were the commonest pathologies, followed by traumatic lesion (6.33%),</p> <p>congenital lesions (5.63%), and neoplastic lesions (3.52%). Future studies with long-term follow-up for determining the</p> <p>benefits of treatments are warranted.</p></div>