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Statistical Analysis of Low Back Pain—A Real Global Burden

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Low back pain (LBP) is a serious health problem throughout the world. Almost all persons may experience LBP at any time during their lifetime. There are many reasons related with this global health burden. Age, profession, body weight, etc. are some of the reasons for LBP. This paper presents a statistical analysis of LBP and discusses how they are related with daily life. Here we collected the data of about 153 subjects of age between 20 and 70 years with LBP and analyzed the results. We completed our study by dividing the population into two groups based on age and sex, and concluded that the chances of LBP are almost equal in both males and females and is generally related with the daily routine of a person.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Dr. Shanavas, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic, Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India for his valuable help and suggestions during the preparation of this paper and Mr. Shibu, Managing Director, Metro Scan Centre, Kerala, who helped in getting the required MRI data.

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  1. Department of Instrumentation Technology, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka, India

    M. Sajeer & M. S. Mallikarjunaswamy

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Sajeer, M., Mallikarjunaswamy, M.S. (2016). Statistical Analysis of Low Back Pain—A Real Global Burden. In: Suresh, L., Panigrahi, B. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Computing Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 397. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2671-0_11

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