Clinical Profile of Patients Presenting with Low Back Pain to Out Patient Department of a Tertiary Level Hospital

Abstract

Methods A descriptive cross-sectional observational study was carried out in 150 patients who presented with complaints of lower back pain in outpatient department of Orthopedics of TU Teaching Hospital from May to November 2019. The demographics including age, gender, occupation, and clinical dataduration of symptoms, body mass index, VAS score and radiculopathy along with Body Mass Index of each patient were recorded in a proforma separately.