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Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a major health issue that causes more disability and global burden than any other conditions. It is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders. Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is dened as a pain that persists for more than 3 months, or longer than the expected healing period. It is associated with increased medical expenditure, work absence, and loss of quality of life. This study aims to ascertain efcacy of 5% dextrose (D5W) in chronic non-specic low back pain. Material and Methods: This study is conducted on patient suffering from chronic low back pain presenting in Department of PM&R, SMS Hospital, Jaipur. It is a Single blind randomized control trial study. We include 34 patients of non-specic chronic LBPin each group as sample size which is further enhanced and rounded off to 40 patients in each group as nal sample size expecting 10% attrition/drop out. Results: We found that mean age of our study group is 49 years. This is female dominant study with 56.25% patients. Dextrose participants reported greater Numerical Rating scale pain score change at baseline (6.4 vs 6.25 points, p=0.59), but there is signicant reduction of mean NRS st nd rd st pain score at 1 week (4.9 vs 5.4 points, p=01), 2 week (4 vs 5.45 points, p=0.0001), 3 week (3.15 vs 5.32 points, p=0. |
