Abstract
Objective: Lower back pain is a very common health problem worldwide and a major cause of disability affecting performance at work and general well-being.Also it is highly prevalent and has substantial socioeconomic implications. The aim of this study was to find out the most common MRI findings in lumbar spine of Sudanese patients with lower back pain and its relation to the patients age,gender and body mass index (BMI ). Materials and Methods:Total 104 patients with lower back pain from both gender and aged between (11-80) years were scanned for lumbar spine MRI at (Abdoon Seed Ahmed Medical Complex,and Alzaytoona Hospital),in a period from July 2021 to March 2022 were enrolled in the study.The data were collected from medical reports using data collecting sheet and were analyzes by SPSS. Results: The study found that the most common MRI findings were disc bulge (67.6%),followed by loss of lordosis (48.9%), and the most affected level was L4-L5.MRI findings was not affected with patients age and gender,on other hand the lumbar disordrers were significantly affected by patients BMI (P-value= 0.00). Conclusion: The study showed that lumbar disorder was affected with patient BMI,but there was no significant variation nor with age neither with gender
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