Journal of Pain & Relief
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Research Article

Low Back Pain in Out-door Patient at the Department of Neurology at Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital in Bamako: Longitudinal, Descriptive and Prospective Study about 120 Patients

Youssoufa Maiga^1*, Zakaria Mamadou¹, Modibo Sangare², Martin Sanou³, Salimata Diallo¹, Seybou H Diallo¹, Massama Camara¹, Oumar Sidibe¹, Youssouf Sogoba⁴, Hamar A Traore⁵ and Julien Nizard⁶

¹Service de Neurologie, CHU Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali

²Faculté de Médecine et d’odontostomatologie, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

³UFR odontologie, Université de Nantes, Mali

⁴Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali

⁵Service de Médecine Interne CHU Point G, Bamako, Mali

⁶Centre d’Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, Centre Fédératif Douleur Soins de Support Ethique clinique, France

*Corresponding Author:

Youssoufa Maiga
Neurologist, Hospital practician at the Teaching
Hospital Gabriel Touré in Bamako, Mali
Tel: 00223-6690-1718
Fax: 00223-2023-9986
E-mail: youssoufamaiga@hotmail.com

Received March 23, 2016; Accepted May 18, 2016; Published May 20, 2016

Citation: Maiga Y, Mamadou Z, Sangare M, Sanou M, Diallo S, et al (2016) Low Back Pain in Out-door Patient at the Department of Neurology at Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital in Bamako: Longitudinal, Descriptive and Prospective Study about 120 Patients. J Pain Relief 5:247.doi:10.4172/2167-0846.1000247

Copyright: © 2016 Maiga Y, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Objective: to report the epidemiological and clinical aspects, the therapeutic itinerary and impact of back pain on the quality of life of patients in the neurology department of CHU Gabriel Touré Mali.

Patients and methods: this is a longitudinal study, conducted over 1 year. All patients seen in the department of Neurology, Gabriel Touré teaching hospital of Bamako with low back pain.

Results: hospital frequency of low back pain was 9.94% with female predominance 58.3% vs. 41.7% for men, mean age 49.5 years, with a range from 20 to 79 years. The pattern of evolution of the disease was acute in 19.2% and chronic in 80.8%. In fact 45% of our patients come in first intention to a General Practitioners, the average duration of follow-up at the level of GP was 215 days. 56.8% of patients had stop working and the average duration was 12 days, the estimated annual financial cost was 223,551.79 Francs XOF e.g. 341.3 Euro. A significant impact of back pain on quality of life, leisure, anxiety and depression was noted in most of the patients using the DALLAS self questionnaire.

Conclusion: Low back pain remains a frequent reason for consultation in neurology. Typical low back pain is the most frequent form. Management is multidisciplinary.

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