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Biomechanics

Sports/Rehab Biomechanics

Assessing Gait Speed with Smartphone for Epidural Steroid Injection in Low Back Pain Patients: A Comparison between Fallers and Non-Fallers

Saturday, October 14, 2023
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM PDT
Location: 335 (Center, Level 3)
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common factors which leads patients to unintentional injuries that require medical assistants. Within the US, the LBP issue is the fifth most prevalent case for visiting hospitals. In addition, it was reported that approximately 2.06 million LBP incidents were reported. Moreover, global LBP occurrence increased by almost 200 million more from 1990 to 2017. This problem not only induces the patient to create physical disabilities but also immensely impacts the patient’s financial status. The medical cost that is related to low back and neck pain exceeded 87.6 billion dollars in 2013, and the maximum lifetime prevalence for this illness is approximately 84%, which indicates that there is a higher percentage that the majority of people in the US will experience this symptom. This disorder is well known for degrading daily physical activity and possibly affecting the gait speed of a patient. Previous research indicated that the patient with LBP had significantly a slower gait speed compared to the healthy group, which indicates the immense correlation between the faller individuals, who tend to also have less gait speed. Therefore, in this study, we hypothesized that Epidural Steroid Injection (ESI) will alleviate and improve LBP and gait speed aspects for faller and non-faller groups.