Relationship between lumbar neuromuscular pain, lumbar disability and physical performancein patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain

Objetivo: Nonspecific low back pain (LBP) refers to pain and discomfort localized in the lumbo-sacral region, with or without radiating leg pain. The patient often shows pain between the costal margins and the inferior gluteal folds, and it is usually accompanied by painful limitation of movement.Non specific Low back pain can also affect the person’s health, physical performance, quality of life. It also increases the medical burden and social costs. The LBP imposes high direct and indirect costs on the patients and therefore the society. Methodology: In this study subjects 41 subjects were taken, who were having nonspecific chronic low back pain for more than 3 months, male and female with age group between 18 and 35 years old, and a minimum pain intensity score of 3 on the Numerical Pain Rating Scale (NPRS). Subjects who had any history of malignancy or spinal fracture, had undergone any surgical procedure in the previous 6 months, had orthopedic or neurological diseases affecting ambulation, pregnant women were excluded from the study. Result: The data were analyzed by using earson correlation Coeficient to check the relationship between pain by using NPRS, disability by Roland Morris questionnaire,Physical performance by using WHOQOL-BREF. Conclusion: This study concluded that there was a positive correlation between neuromuscular pain and lumbardisability and negative correlation between neuromuscular pain and physical performance.