Does occupation have any effect on degree of cervical disc degeneration?

Year 2017, Volume 2, Issue 1(4), 57 - 57, 01.11.2017

İskender Samet Daltaban

Abstract

Aim: The
occupational musculoskeletal system pain is generally divided into three
groups. These are classified as poor posture work, high repetition speed
movements during operation, compulsive and load-increasing movements.In this
study, it was researched whether there is any relation between occupation and
cervical disc degeneration.

Materials:

In this study, files of patients diagnosed with cervical disc
degeneration on magnetic resonance imaging were reviewed retrospectively from
July 2016 to September 2016 for patients with neck and/or arm pain at
neurosurgery clinic of Bozok University.45 male and 55 female patients were
included in the study.Age ranged from 25 to 65 years, and patients were divided
into three age groups: 25-35 (group 1), 35-45 (group 2), and over 45 years
(group 3).Occupations were identified as housewife (group 1), teacher (group 2)
and health worker (group 3) in women.Occupations in men were assigned as
construction workers (group 1), teachers (group 2), and health workers (group
3).The study year was organized as 0-5 years (group 1), 5-10 years (group 2),
10-15 years (group 3) and 15 years (group 4), respectively, with five years
increasing in each group.The degree of degeneration in MRI was regulated as
black disc bulging (group 1), protrusion (group 2), extrusion (group 3), and
sequestration (4).The type of treatment was divided into conservative (group 1)
and surgery (group 2) groups.Patients with diabetes, chronic liver disease,
obesity, coronary heart disease, thyroid gland disorder, osteoporosis,
ankylosing spondylitis, and severe trauma were not included in the study.

Results:

Statistically significant differences were found between the type of
treatment and degree of disc degeneration. A similar effect was seen between
working year and age. However, there was no significant differences except
afromentioned ones.

Conclusion:

Some etiological factors have been suggested to play a role in the
development of disk degeneration such as trauma, abnormal pressure
distribution, age, smoking ,physical activities , familial history (genetic
tendency), dibates mellitus ,atherosclerosis, obesity, and vascular diease.
However, there is not clear consensus on this subject, several studies have
indicated conflicting results with each other. In our study we observed that
there is no relationship between the degree of cervical disc degeneration and
occupation.

 

Key words: cervical disc degeneration,magnetic resonance imaging, occupation

Keywords

Does occupation have any effect on degree of cervical disc degeneration?

References

• İskender Samet DALTABAN, MD Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Bozok University, School of Medicine, Yozgat /TURKEY