Work Related Musculoskeletal Pain among Physiotherapy Students

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  • Chhaya Verma prof, department of physiotherapy, seth gsmc & kem hospital, parel, mumbai
  • Lavanya Kailas intern, Lokmanya tilak municipal medical college & general hospital, sion, mumbai
  • Vijaya Krishnan M.P.Th, Lokmanya tilak municipal medical college & general hospital, sion, mumbai.

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Keywords, Physiotherapy students, Musculoskeletal pain, Occupational injury, Ergonomics, Postures, Low back pain.

Abstract

Physiotherapists serve as role models for practicing healthy life style behaviors. They are desired to have a good level of physical fitness to meet their job demands. Their professional demands require the therapist to engage in activities that demand wholesome amount of strength, endurance and flexibility. The job analysis shows that physiotherapy students are more likely to experience musculoskeletal pain. Occupational musculoskeletal pain relates to workplace hazards and incurs high costs to society as well as individual’s pain and suffering. All physiotherapy students enrolled in a tertiary care public sector hospital were asked to participate in a cross-sectional questionnaire based study. A sample size of 48 was randomly selected at a power of 80% and p<0.05 using STATA 10 software. The sample targeted all students registered from first to fourth year and also post-graduate students. Descriptive statistics were included for quantitative variables. The prevalence of musculoskeletal pain between different year groups was compared using Pearson’s chi square test. Prevalence of low back pain was found among 48 % of students, followed by 16 % reporting neck and upper back pain, 12 % having both neck and low back pain, 8 % showed knee pain while 4 % stated foot pain. We observed that 52 % students had musculoskeletal pain in one form or other. But, only 36 % out of these were taking any precautionary measures or treatments to cure the same.  Keywords: physiotherapy students, musculoskeletal pain, occupational injury, ergonomics, postures, low back pain  Cite this Article Chhaya Verma, Lavanya Kailas, Vijaya Krishnan. Work related musculoskeletal pain among physiotherapy students. Journal of Health Professions, 2015; 5(3): 25–31p.

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2015-12-21

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V. 5 N. 3 (2015)

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