| Association Between The Acute Low Back Pain And Kinesiophobia – A Correlation Study |
| B.Arun, S.Mohamed Auriff And M.S.Nagarajan |
| Abstract : |
| Low back pain is one of the most frequent problems treated by Orthopaedicians. It is becoming
increasingly problematic over the past century, it receive increasing amount of attention and concern due to the
burdens placed on health systems and social-care systems. There are evidences showed that fear of movement has
close association with low back pain. This study aims to find out the association between the acute low back pain
and kinesiophobia. 100 subjects were selected by convenient sampling method with the age group ranging from
20—40 years. Subjects were chosen following suitable inclusion and exclusion criteria. The study was conducted
for 6 months. The outcome measures were pain and kinesiophobia. The pain was assessed using visual analog scale
and the kinesiophobia was assessed using Tampa scale of kinesiophobia. Karl pearlson's correlation coefficient is
used to compute the result between the acute low back pain and kinesiophobia. The result found that it was 0.859
which shows a high correlation between the back pain and kinesiophobia. |
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