Аутор и коаутори: Slavica Đ. Jandrić, Predrag Kragulj

Scoliosis, life style and low back pain in adolescents

Година објаве: 2021

Језик: Енглески

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Background/Aim. Various internal and external factors could have an influence on the appearance of scoliosis and other postural disturbances in adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between scoliosis and other postural disturbances, physical activity, nutri-tional habits, as well as its association with comorbidities and age. Methods. This cross-sectional study involved 212 adolescents with the average age of 12.74 ± 1.34 years that were selected by a random selection of attended class of elementary school. A modified “The Physical Activity and Postural Disturbance Test” was used for the study. For statistical analysis Pearson’s test of correlation and lin-ear regression were used to estimate the association be-tween scoliosis and postural disturbances, age, and physi-cal activity, nutritional habits and comorbidities in adoles-cents. Results. It was shown that there was a statistically significant association between scoliosis and age (r = 0.228, p < 0.05), a significant negative correlation with lordosis (r = -0.207, p < 0.05) and a statistically significant positive correlation between scoliosis and flatfoot (r = 0.279, p < 0.01), metatarsus varus (r = 0, 2, p < 0.05) and low back pain (r = 0.304, p < 0.05). The results of linear regression with the scoliosis, as a dependent variable, and low back pain and other diseases as independent variables have shown that low back pain was significantly associated with scoliosis (p < 0.05). Conclusion. Scoliosis in adoles-cents is significantly associated with age and postural dis-turbances, especially with foot postural disturbances, as well as with low back pain.