Intervención farmacológica para disminuir las complicaciones de lumbalgia aguda, en pacientes adultos jóvenes y medios. Arosemena Tola, Napo.

Abstract

In order to reduce the incidence of complications caused by acute low back pain, a pharmacological intervention was implemented based on the recommendations of the Consensus document of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology for the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for the treatment of low back pain; the study included 57 patients between 20 and 60 years who presented complications of this pathology. The Oswestry scale was applied to determine the inability and the visual pain scale to determine its intensity. The McNemar Test was used to determine changes in the frequency of pain intensity levels, presence of disability and severity of pain. At the beginning of the investigation, a high percentage of patients with moderate (22.8%) and severe disability (17.6%) and high intensity of low back pain (29.8%) were found. Adjustments were made to the therapeutic schemes of 70.2% of the patients. It was concluded that the pharmacological intervention caused significant changes in pain intensity, presence of disability and its severity, an approach based on the results obtained in the application of the McNemar test for these variables comparing pretest and posttest results. It is recommended to implement actions in the adult population to control the risk factors related to the appearance of low back pain through health promotion and prevention activities.