Correlation between Neck Pain and Disability among People Wearing Helmet

Abstract

Helmet is an effective gear to protect from life threatening injuries during road traffic accidents (RTA).Parameters such as neck pain and disability while wearing helmet should be
analyzed as independent concepts and two different dimensions because various factors might affect this relationship Objective: To find out the correlation between neck pain
intensity and disability of bike riders who wear helmet. Methods: This was a cross sectional study in which NDI (Neck disability Index) was used to find out level of disability among helmet wearing bike riders. Data was collected from 2017 August to 2018 January from department of physiotherapy, University of Lahore. Convenient sampling technique was used for data collection. Sample size was 184. Male motorbike rider of age 19-35 years old who wear helmet were included. Participants having Tumor, Infection, fracture of spine and its surrounding tissues/Structures were excluded. Results: Mean of age was 22.52±3.57 years. Out of total 184, 126(68.5%) respondents reported no pain at all. Majority of the participant 78(44.2%) had no disability 35(19%) bike riders had no pain and were also not disable according to NDI scoring .The correlation between pain intensity and NDI score was 0.601 (p= 0.000). Conslusions: Among all bike rider wearing helmet, majority had no neck pain and disability but few were suffering from mild neck pain. This was concluded that there was moderately positive correlation between neck pain and disability scores of those participants.