ABSTRACT
Many factors are associated with the development of low back pain. Among them, exercise, obesity, smoking, age, educational level and stress are the most common. This study examined the association of these factors with low back pain. An additional aim was to determine a procedure for preventing low back pain. This study analyzed the responses to a questionnaire sent to 772 individuals who had undergone a medical examination at this hospital in 2003 and excluded the individuals who had shown symptoms or their test results indicated a particular disease. Assuming that there were no variables, individuals who exercised regularly 3-4 times per week would have a lower chance of having low back pain than those who did not exercise regularly. The analysis revealed that individuals with a college degree or higher education have a lower chance of experiencing low back pain than those with only a high school education or even college drop-outs. When the other variables were constant, age, extent of obesity (body mass index), smoking and level of stress were not found to affect the development of low back pain. The level of education was associated with the development of low back pain. However, regular exercise 3-4 times per week or more would be most effective in reducing the incidence and duration of low back pain.
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Middle Aged , Male , Humans , Female , Aged, 80 and over , Aged , Adult , Adolescent , Stress, Psychological/epidemiology , Statistics , Smoking/epidemiology , Sex Distribution , Risk Factors , Risk Assessment/methods , Prognosis , Physical Examination/statistics & numerical data , Obesity/epidemiology , Low Back Pain/diagnosis , Korea/epidemiology , Exercise , Educational Status , Comorbidity , Age DistributionABSTRACT
Nucleoplasty is a newly developed minimal invasive spinal surgery using a coblation technique. The complications of this new spinal surgery are trauma to retroperitoneal organs involving the kidney, discitis, menigitis, and epidural abscess. Recently, postoperative psoas abscess and discitis appears to have increased in frequency, in part because procedures performed on the spine have been more frequent and improvements in diagnostic capabilities have been made. Antibiotic therapy, abscess drainage, or a surgical procedure is required to treat discitis and psoas abscess. We encountered one case of postoperative psoas abscess and discitis after a nucleoplasty that had not responded to antibiotics but which responded successfully to treatment by spinal surgery.