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Late bedtimes, short sleeping time, and longtime video-game playing are associated with low back pain in school-aged athletes

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Abstract

Purpose

Low back pain is a significant problem for school-aged athletes. Although some risk factors relating to sports activities have been reported, the effect of lifestyles on low back pain in school-aged athletes is not clear. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the association between lifestyles, such as wake-up time, bedtime, sleeping time, and TV-viewing or video-game-playing time per day and low back pain of school-aged athletes.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted with school-aged athletes (aged 6–15 years, n = 6441) using a self-reported questionnaire and multivariate logistic regression models were used for analyses. Variables considered in the models were gender, age, body mass index, team levels, number of days in practice per week, number of hours in practice per day, and lifestyles.

Results

The frequency of low back pain was 5.0% (n = 322). Late bedtime, short sleeping time, and long video-game-playing time per day were significantly associated with low back pain. There was no significant association between low back pain and wake-up time or TV-viewing time per day.

Conclusion

Unhealthy life-style choices, such as late bedtimes, short sleeping time, and longtime video-game playing, were associated with low back pain in school-aged athletes.

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Acknowledgements

This study was performed as part of the Miyagi Sports Medical Projects, and supported by Asahi Breweries.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan

    Yutaka Yabe, Yoshihiro Hagiwara, Takuya Sekiguchi, Kenji Kanazawa, Masashi Koide, Nobuyuki Itaya & Eiji Itoi

  2. Department of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

    Yoshihiro Hagiwara, Kaoru Kuroki & Ryoichi Nagatomi

  3. Division of Biomedical Engineering for Health and Welfare, Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

    Haruki Momma & Ryoichi Nagatomi

  4. Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Tohoku Fukushi University, 1-8-1 Kunimi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 981-8522, Japan

    Masahiro Tsuchiya

  5. Department of Rehabilitation, Tohoku Fukushi University, 1-8-1 Kunimi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 981-8522, Japan

    Kaoru Kuroki

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Yabe, Y., Hagiwara, Y., Sekiguchi, T. et al. Late bedtimes, short sleeping time, and longtime video-game playing are associated with low back pain in school-aged athletes. Eur Spine J 27, 1112–1118 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-5177-5

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