Journal of Pain & Relief
Open Access

Research Article

Low Back Pain of Faculty of Sport and Physical Education Students in Relation to Different Activities

Almir Atikovic^1*, Muhamed Tabakovic², Zarko Kostovski³, Jasmin Zahirovic¹, Suncica Delas Kalinski⁴, Jasmin Bilalic¹ and Almir Kurt¹

¹Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

²Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

³Faculty of Physical Education, University of Skopje, Macedonia

⁴Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Split, Croatia

*Corresponding Author:

Almir Atikovic
Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
University of Tuzla, 2. Oktobra 1, 75000 Tuzla
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tel: +387 (0)61 830 730
E-mail: almir.atikovic@untz.ba

Received date: April 29, 2017; Accepted date: May 22, 2017; Published date: May 26, 2017

Citation: Atikovic A, Tabakovic M, Kostovski Z, Zahirovic J, Kalinski SD, et al. (2017) Low Back Pain of Faculty of Sport and Physical Education Students in Relation to Different Activities. J Pain Relief 6:290. doi: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000290

Copyright: © 2017 Atikovic A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Background: Physical inactivity and intensive sports activity have been found to be associated with LBP. The aim of this study is the presents the data about the prevalence of LBP in young adults and its associations with vitality, physical activity and emotions. We also studied the impact of low back pain on daily activity. The study sample presented (n=323) students from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the chronological age of 21.06 ± 1.93 years. The current study assessed the level of LBP amongst students of Faculty of Sport with the level of physical activity in last six months.

Methods: We used the questionnaire, which included the Graded Chronic Pain Scale (GCPS) for the evaluation of levels of chronic pain. With a Short Health Survey (SF-36) we tried to measure the health status.

Results: A total of (n=323) of all students had pain intensity at some point in last six months. All students reported (n=236, 73.0%) prevalence of LBP. In this study body mass index, level of physical activity were not significant independent predictors of intensity and disability scores.

Conclusion: 3/4 of all respondents said to have had any episode LBP. The results of our study can be used by officials in the area of prevention to support efforts to improve health of the student population and to reduce the LBP risk.

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