ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN AFTER CESAREAN SECTION IN HOSPITALS OF LAHORE

Abstract

Objectives: To find out the frequency of chronic low back pain after cesarean section. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Period: Six months (Sep: 2016-Feb 2017). Setting: Jinnah hospital Lahore, Akhtar Mubarak Trust hospital Lahore and Nawaz Sharif Social Security Hospital Lahore. Material and Methods: The sample size of 160 women who had cesarean section, data collected. Likert scale of Oswestry low back pain disability scale used to measure the intensity of low back pain. Statistical analysis done via IBM SPSS 21.0. Results: Respondent rate is 100%, the mean age of patients is 27.93±4.3 whereas the minimum age is 20 years and maximum is 40 years. 160 respondents were asked to fill the questionnaire, among them 46.9% (75) had no hypertension and 53.1% (85) had hypertension. The frequency of females having diabetes was 77.5% (124) had no diabetes and 22.5% (36) had diabetes. 114(71.3%) had no low back pain, 46(28.8%) had moderate low back pain and none has severe pain after their Cesarean Section. Conclusion: It is concluded that frequency of chronic low back pain after C-section is little bit present after the surgical intervention of cesarean Section. It can be claimed that Csection is one risk factor of chronic low back pain.