The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the characteristics and the therapeutic effect of comprehensive rehabilitative approach to juvenile back & neck pain, thus help them in the management and prevention of back & neck pain.
The subjects of this study were 177 patients with back pain and 93 patients with neck pain who visited to Yongdong Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, and were managed with comprehensive rehabilitative approach.
The major results were as follows:
1) The onset age of pain occurance is 13.4 years in male, 14.5 years in female with back pain and 13.8 years in male, 12.3 years in female with neck pain.
2) The causes of pain were unknown(135cases, 76.3%), trauma(42cases, 23.7%) in back pain group and unknown(74cases, 79.6%), trauma(19cases, 20.4%) in neck pain group.
3) Plain X-ray findings showed lumbar spine straightening(58cases), lumbar disc space narrowing(27cases), scoliosis(24cases) in back pain group and cervical spine straightening(45cases), cervical disc space narrowing(13cases) in neck pain group.
4) The results of treatment were excellent(85cases, 48%), good(75cases, 42,4%) in back pain group and excellent(50cases, 53.8%), good(32cases, 34.4%) in neck pain group.
Therefore patients complaining of neck and back pain in juvenile should be examed their neck and back with various laboratory study and managed by comprehensive rehabilitation.
