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KMID : 0378019740170010055
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New Medical Journal
1974 Volume.17 No. 1 p.55 ~ p.60
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The Clinical and Statistical Study of the Low-back Pain in the Gynecological Field
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Abstract
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The low-back pain is one of the most frequent complaints seen in the ´out-patient gynecological department´. Although it is frequently complained by women, many gynecologists overlook the complaint as one of the complications of other disease.
The results of the statistical study of 436 cases at Woo-Sok Hospital, College of Medicine, Korea University, durign the period of one year in 1971 were obtained as following:
1. The incidence of low-back pain among total of 2,479 in `out-patient gynecological department´ were 436 and 17.6 percent.
2. The incidence increased as the age of the patients gets older.
3. The low-back pain was complained more in the multi-para group (12.5-33.1%) than in the primi-para (3.2%).
4. There showed no significant differences in the incidence between the women who experienced no history of abortion (12.4%) and the group with the abortion only once (16.4%). The group who had more than twice of abortion showed much higher incidence (21.6-27.5%).
5. The frequently accompanied complaint with the lowback pain was low abdominal pain(20.9%), leukorrhea (20.3%), and urinary frequency (12.4 %), respectively.
6. The low-back pain was more frequently seen in the gynecological inflammatory disease (27.2%) than seen in the neoplastic disease (22.3%).
7. The incidence was much higher in the pre-menstrual period and much more frequently complained in fall and winter.
8. The incidence was 46.7 percent in patients who showed no evidence of gynecological problem whose Ferguson´s angle was greater than 34 degrees and the patients after the 3rd decade showed unstabled angle and all of them complained of the low back pain.
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