Prevalence of Low Back Pain among Adolescent Students in a Nigerian Urban Community
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Nine hundred secondary schools students, comprising 415 boys and 485 girls, with age range 12-17 years were surveyed. They were required to complete a self-developed, three-part items questionnaire which collected information on socio-demographic characteristics, history and intensity of low back pain, factors predisposing to low back pain, and activity limitations suffered because of low back pain.
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