Correlation Between Overweight/Obesity and Low Back Pain (LBP)

Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the common health problems worldwide and the cause of these problems is mostly non-specific. However, there are several risk factors that support the occurrence of LBP and one of them is being overweight/obesity. The aim of the study is to analyse the correlation between overweight/obesity and LBP. This study is an analytic observational with cross-sectional methods. By using medical records, the data taken will be analysed using the Chi-square test in SPSS computer program with the significance value of p<0.05. With the total of 138 LBP patients that meet the inclusion criteria, most of them are in the overweight/obesity group 55.1 % while the rest 44.9 % are in the normal group. However, in the Chi-Square test, we found that there was no significant correlation between overweight/obesity and LBP with the significant value p=0.382. In conclusion, this study found no correlation between overweight/obese and LBP. &nbsp