The Factors That Correlated with Back Pain in Physiotherapists

Year 2015, Volume: 5 Issue: 4, 215 - 219, 29.12.2015

Ozge Cınar Bulent Elbasan İrem Duzgun Muhammed Kılınc

https://doi.org/10.5455/musbed.20150831012038

Abstract

Objective: Depending on the occupational loading, back pain is frequently encountered in physiotherapists. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation of age, body mass index (BMI), working posture and time with back pain in physiotherapists.

Methods: Twenty-nine physiotherapists were included to study. Working-years and daily-working hours were recorded. Complaints about back pain were assessed with “Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale” (QUEBEC), working posture with “Owako Working Posture Analyze System” (OWAS). The relation between back pain and age, “body mass index” (BMI), working posture, working time and daily-working hours were investigated by Spearman correlation coefficient. Mann-Whitney U test was used to set the differences in age, BMI, working posture, working-years and daily-working hours of the physiotherapists which were having back pain and having no pain.

Results: There were a statistically significant correlation between QUEBEC score and age (r=0.44, p=0.01). Working year was correlated with working posture (r=0.38, p=0.04) and BMI (r=0.41, p=0.027). There were a statistically significant difference between ages of physiotherapists which had back pain and which didn’t have back pain (p<0.05).

Conclusions: The results of our study showed that age is related with back pain related disability in physiotherapists. Deterioration of working posture and BMI with aging may trigger back pain in physiotherapists.

Keywords

Physiotherapist, posture, back pain

Fizyoterapistlerde Bel Ağrısı ile İlişkili Etkenler

Abstract

 

Amaç: Fizyoterapistlerde
mesleki yüklenmelere bağlı olarak bel ağrısı sıklıkla görülen bir durumdur. Bu çalışmanın
amacı fizyoterapistlerde yaş, vücut kitle indeksi, çalışma postürü ve çalışma yılının
bel ağrısı ile ilgili özürlülük düzeyi üzerine etkisini incelemektir.

Yöntem: Yirmi
dokuz fizyoterapist çalışmaya dahil edildi. Çalışma yılı ve günlük çalışma
saatleri kaydedildi. Olguların bel ağrısı ile ilgili şikâyetleri “Quebec Bel Ağrısı
Kısıtlılık Ölçeği” (QUEBEC) ile, çalışma postürleri “Owako Çalışma Postürü
Analiz Sistemi” (OWAS) ile değerlendirildi. Bel ağrısı ile yaş, vücut kitle
indeksi (VKİ) , çalışma postürü, çalışma yılı ve günlük çalışma saati arasındaki
ilişki Spearman korelasyon katsayısı kullanılarak incelendi. Bel ağrısı olan ve
olmayan fizyoterapistlerin yaş, VKİ, çalışma yılı, günlük çalışma saati ve çalışma
postürleri arasındaki fark Mann-Whitney U test ile değerlendirildi.

Bulgular: QUEBEC
skoru ile yaş arasında pozitif yönde orta derecede istatistiksel olarak anlamlı
ilişki bulundu (r=0.44, p=0.01). Çalışma yılı ile çalışma postürü (r=0.38,
p=0.04) ve VKİ (r=0.41, p=0.027) arasında ilişki olduğu görüldü. Bel ağrısı
olan ve olmayan fizyoterapistlerin yaşları ista­tistiksel olarak birbirinden
farklı bulundu (p<0.05).

Sonuçlar: Çalışmamızda
fizyoterapistlerde ilerleyen yaşın bel ağrısı ile ilgili özürlülük düzeyini
etkilediği görüldü. Ayrıca çalışma yılı arttıkça çalışma postürünün bozulması
ve VKİ’nin artmasının bel ağrısını tetikle­yebilecek faktörler olduğu görüldü.

Keywords

Fizyoterapist, postür, bel ağrısı

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