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TITLE:

AN OBSERVATIONAL RESEARCH TO ASSESS THE ONSET OF NECK PAIN AMONG VARIOUS COMPUTER USERS WORKING FOR VARIOUS TIME DURATIONS ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMPUTERS

AUTHORS:

1Dr. Iqra Amin, 1Dr. Afifa Arshad, 2Dr. Rabia Asghar

ABSTRACT:

Objective: The study includes many goals. These include to check out the connection between kinds of a chair being used in prolonged use of computer and incidence of neck pain, the occurrence of neck pain in use of a computer, the influence of rest during prolonged work and the relationship between sitting in the wrong position during a long period and neck pain.Methodology: This observational study was carried out at Sir Ganga Ramm Hospital, Lahore from March to October 2017 on fifty office workers working at various workstations. Various computer users which include students and office workers are present in the study. Information for this study was assembled by mean of the questionnaire.Results: The result indicated a powerful connection between the use of a computer for longer duration and neck pain (p=0.001). less pain is observed in those people who took rest during their working in the computer. The connection of neck pain with both types of chair and type of system was not observed valuable. Total prevalence of neck pain with serious pain [5]. The functioning of cervical extensor muscle is retorted and more performance of upper trapezius is observed in computer abuser with pain in the neck, relative to those who are working but without pain in the neck [6]. The extent of pain in the neck can be a lesson by taking mini-breaks or micro-break of 30 seconds after the work of 20-40 minutes. This will help in effective reduction of neck pain and yield of workers is not influenced by these breaks [7]. Moreover, using a computer in the proper way can also reduce the chance of neck pain.

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