Lumbalgia. Prevalencia y programas preventivos en la infancia y adolescencia

The back pain, is one ofthe mostcommon problems of health in our society, is highly prevalent and frequent cause of absence from work, utilization of health services and considerable disability. It is the process that generates the most number of consults in the sanitary system not surprising that generate enormous economic and social prices. The low back pain is the most common kind of back pain, enlarging with the age since the infancy; the prevalence in the adolescence is much seemed to it found in adults. This situation they are they have carried out activities of prevention and processing increasingly more efficient and directed mainly to the adult population. The implementation of educational programs of primary prevention in early ages has done itself also necessary and recommendable. With children and adolescents have been carried out preventive intervention programs in the school, suitable place for these activities. The programs are designed to enlarge the knowledge o f this population with respect to the general health of the back by means of interventions with theory and practice. The theory is characterized in the majority of the programs, by information on anatomy, biomechanics and care of the back; and the practical one through the teaching of positions and correct posture activities as: correct way to be sat down, to collect an object of the floor, to be gone to bed, etc. The effectiveness of these programs is evident and the increments of knowledge witch can relate to the delay or the not apparition of the first back pain episode.