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Abstract
Obesity is defined as significant, higher amount of body fat content than normal. In the normal
young adult man, about 15-1. of body weight is fat and in the norrnal young adult woman about
20.2S96 of body weight is fat..
A wide spectrum of co.rno.idities has been msociated with obesity including, nominsulin
dependant diabetes mellitus, hyperlipedaemia, coronary heart disease, hypertension, oedema,
cellulites, wound dehiscence, respiratory failure, gall stones as well as cancer of the breast and
uterus..
Low back pain has been reported as one of the high prevalent co-morbidities of obesity. This has been partially explained by obesity, being a predisposing factor to degenerative joint disease of the weight bearing joints. Different mechanisms have been sup,gested to describe the relationship between obesity and degenerative joint disease in general and of the lumbosacral spine in particut.
Low back pain patients exhibited lumbar motion patterns altered from those of the normal
population. Specific differences were observed in coupled axial rotation during lateral bending
movement, in the symmetry of lateral bending..Also some studies report reduced ranges of flexion.
extension motion in patients with Mw back pain and reduced ranges of axial and anterior-posterior
translations in comparison with the ranges of the healthy subjects, and that these patients exhibited
a clear and consistent relation ship between vertebral kinematics and their reported level of pain..
Few studies have taken into consideration the relationship between obesity and tile three