THE ASSOCIATION OF SITTING POSTURE AND CERVICOGENIC PAIN AMONG THE STUDENTS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY
Keywords:
Posture, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Cervicogenic Pain, Prevalence, Ergonomic, Morbidity.Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To determine the prevalence and association of cervicogenic pain and poor
sitting posture among the students of Physical Therapy.
A cross sectional survey was conducted among the students through convenient
sampling, aged 18 – 30 years. A Structure questionnaire was used to collect
the data. Both descriptive and interference statistics were used to analyzed the
data.
A cross- sectional study design was selected for this study.
Students (n=100) has been selected from the different private and government
Physical Therapy institutes of Karachi.
From the sample size (n=100) including students of Physical Therapy, had
studying for more than 8 hours. During the analysis of data it was found that 71%
of students were aware about the correct sitting posture and only in 36% of
students’ cervicogenic pain is the reason of decrease their activities.
The result of the study shows that the prevalence of cervicogenic pain is higher
among the students but poor sitting posture is not consistent reason of pain
there were other associated factors too. Maximum numbers of students were
aware about the correct posture during sitting for study and using computer.
Among entire population ratio of pain was higher in female than male students.
