Personal Risk Factors for First-Time Low Back Pain

Abstract

Personal risk factors explained up to 12% of first-time low back pain.

Spinal alignment in low back pain patients and age-related side effects: a multivariate cross-sectional analysis of video rasterstereography back shape reconstruction data

“…These results were probably Independent variables entered together, discriminant coefficients C0.50 in italics Eur Spine J (2013) 22:1979-1985 1983 not affected by age-related side effects, although significance failed by 1.6 % for the comparison of controls and younger patients in a univariate analysis (Table 5). This result was in line with findings that revealed frontal plane asymmetries as risk factor for the development of low back pain [1,2]. In terms of our rasterstereography spinal form assessment, sagittal plane spine shape parameters could not be exposed clearly by multivariate factor analysis procedures as LBP indicating variables, but in discriminant analyses sagittal plane parameters were extracted as variables being able to separate controls from LBP patients of different age (Table 4).…”

“…Especially, frontal plane spinal asymmetries were identified to be a risk factor for low back pain syndromes [2]. When the most predictive factor for the development of low back pain-earlier back pain periods-could be controlled statistically, a flatter lumbar lordosis angle could be identified as a risk factor [1]; mathematical modeling studies reported a tendency for a flatter lordosis angle in chronic low back pain patients, too [11]. Some radiological findings in adults confirmed a flatter lumbar lordosis to be associated with chronic low back pain [13].…”

Symptoms of Depression and Risk of New Episodes of Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

“…The search strategy identified 7,765 unique studies that were all screened based on title and abstract, and resulted in 81 potentially eligible studies. Sixty-two studies were excluded based on full-text screening and, therefore, 19 articles (reporting data from 16 studies) were included in the review (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30). Two published articles (20,22) reported findings of the same study and were both included in the review, as they provided results for different time points.…”

“…The samples were recruited from the general population in 13 articles (6)(7)(8)19,21,(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30) and from a workplace in 6 articles (9)(10)(11)18,20,22). The assessment of symptoms of depression varied across the studies, but overall they could be categorized into 3 groups: diagnostic interview, self-report screening questionnaires, and nonspecific screening questionnaires (questionnaires that assessed more general categories of psychological distress, including but not limited to, symptoms of depression).…”

“…No statistically significant relationship was observed when we pooled the studies that employed nonspecific screening questionnaires (OR 1.17, 95% CI 0.48-2.87, I 2 5 76%) (Figure 3A). Among the studies that did not provide enough data to be pooled (i.e., provided only P value data), 2 studies reported symptoms of depression to be associated with new cases of LBP (21,22), and 3 studies did not find a significant association (9,10,18).…”