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23.07.2016 | Original Article
Prevalence of back pain in adolescent pupils according to their activity
Erschienen in: Sport Sciences for Health | Ausgabe 3/2016
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Purpose
To evaluate the lifetime prevalence of back pain (BP) in adolescent pupils depending on their activity level.
Methods
372 Austrian pupils, 155 Bavarian soccer club members and 150 youth athletes who participated in summer camps of the Munich Soccer School 2013 took part in this cross-sectional retrospective cohort study. An iPad-compatible survey was used to measure several information on occurrence, cause, type, localization and risk factors of BP as well as the activities in sports.
Results
Prevalence of BP showed to be highest in the inactive group (63 %), while soccer athletes (33 %, p < 0.001) and club members of other sports (29 %, p < 0.001) differed significantly. Also, higher body mass indexes (BMI) accounted to be more likely connected to BP than lower ones. Conflicting other studies, the thoracic pain turned out to be the most concerned spine complaint.
Conclusion
A u-shaped curve best describes the connection between activity and the risk for developing BP, while five to six training hours per week seem to be the optimal activity level. These findings moot a closer look at school sport activities as a preventive factor for BP, especially for complaints of the thoracic spine.