Association Between Hamstring Shortness and Asymmetry, Pain Intensity, Disability Index, and Compensatory Lumbar Movement in 60 Patients with Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain

23 March 2023 : Clinical Research

Ki-Young Moon^1ABCDF, Dong-Chun Park^1ADF, Won-deuk Kim

^1ABDF, Doochul Shin^2ADE*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.939657

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e939657

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Table 2 Correlation analysis of hamstring length and hamstring length asymmetry (N=60).

		Hamstring shortness	Hamstring asymmetry	NPRS	ODI	Lumbar flexion	Compensatory lumbar rotation
Hamstring shortness	P	.	–	–	–	–	–
Hamstring shortness	CC	1	–	–	–	–	–
Hamstring asymmetry	P	.002	.	–	–	–	–
Hamstring asymmetry	CC	−.394^*	1	–	–	–	–
NPRS	P	.004	.000	.	–	–	–
NPRS	CC	−.369^*	.893^*	1	–	–	–
ODI	P	.003	.000	.000	.	–	–
ODI	CC	−.383^*	.757^**	.842^*	1	–	–
Lumbar flexion	P	.000	.004	.006	.027	.	–
Lumbar flexion	CC	.740^*	−.368^*	−.350^*	−.286^*	1	–
Compensatory lumbar rotation	P	.237	.000	.000	.051	.259	.
Compensatory lumbar rotation	CC	−.155	.476^*	.444^*	.253	−.148	1
^* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level; ^** correlation is significant at the 0.01 level. NPRS – numeric pain rating scale; ODI – Oswestry disability index.

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