Frequency of Work Related Musculoskeletal Knee Pain among Health Care Practitioners of Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Work related musculoskeletal complaints are signicant throughout many professions and become major concern for many professions like
governments and society overall. Health care professional are vulnerable to musculoskeletal disorder during their work routine.Objective: To determine the frequency of work related musculoskeletal knee pain among health care practitioners of Lahore, Pakistan Methods: An observational (cross sectional) survey was conducted and Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire was used to collect the data. By using non-probability sampling technique data was collected from health care professionals of various private clinics, government and private hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan, Descriptive (Mean, Standard deviation, percentages) were used during data analysis Results: Total 971 questionnaires returned at the response rate of 80.91%. In this study number of males was more than females. The average SD±age of participants was 36.39±8.82. Frequency of knee pain estimated during this study among health care professionals was (21.3 %). Frequency of knee pain among Physician were 2 1 . 8 % , D entists 15.8% , Surgeons 85% , Physiotherapists 24%, Nurses 16.7% , Radiologists 16.7% and Medical lab technologists 29.5%. Conclusions: This study concluded that the frequency of work related musculoskeletal knee pain among health care professional was low. Working in bad posture, lifting weight, excessive bending of knee, pressure on the knee during prolong short sitting, prolong standing cause knee pain among health care professionals. Many professionals revealed that they changed their duties after experiencing work related knee pain.