Prevalence of Low Back Pain among Primary School Students from the City of Valencia (Spain)

It is well-known that low back pain (LBP) prevalence high among school-age children. However, literature concerning the initial onset of between ages three and eleven years scarce. The present study aims to analyze LBP in kindergarten primary school students. A total 278 (9.9 ± 2.1 old; 52.2% girls) students from two public kindergartens schools Valencia (Spain) participated this cross-sectional study. Nordic questionnaire on was used assess duration symptoms. lifetime 47.5% (n = 132), last year’s 44.2% 123), week’s 18.8% 50). Boys girls reported a 52.3% 64) 47.7% 63) (p 0.186, Fisher’s exact test, 2-sided), respectively. By age group, episodes became more prevalent with increasing < 0.001, 2-sided). In summary, our findings show increases further strengthens evidence could start as young 10 age.