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FREQUENCY OF PAIN IN ELBOW, WRIST AND HAND AMONG FARMERS DURING HARVESTING

Naveeda Ashraf, Kanwal Arshad, Muhammad Kamran Hanif, Basita Shagheer, Faiza Sharif, Ashfaq Ahmad

Background: Prolonged sitting during harvesting may lead of development of bad posture, repetitive injury in upper limb including elbow, wrist and hand. Gross to fine motor activities have to be incorporated during harvesting such as cutting, planting, threshing, scooping, uprooting and many other similar activities. These put ligaments, bones, tendons, muscles, joints and even surrounding neurovascular bundle at high risk. Objective: To determine frequency of pain in elbow, wrist and hand among farmers during harvesting. Methods: It was cross sectional study conducted in Rajanpur completed in 6 months. Total 131 farmers were selected through sample of convenience. The farmers were screened according to eligibility criteria. The farmers having degenerative changes were excluded. The data was collected through questionnaire and analyzed in SPSS 20.0. Frequency distribution was analyzed and mean and standard deviation was calculated for quantitative data. Results: The results showed that that 8.4% patients were having elbow pain, 14.5 wrist pain, 16.8% having hand pain, 12.2% had been having elbow pain, 9.9% had been having wrist and forearm pain, 6.9% have been having forearm pain, 18.3% were having hand and wrist pain, 2.3% were having wrist and elbow ache, 2.3% were having elbow and hand ache, 8.4%have been having wrist, forearm and elbow ache. Conclusion: The findings concluded that there is high frequency of musculoskeletal pain disorders among farmers. The most farmers reported that multi-joints were involved, however solely reported joint was elbow followed by wrist and hand. Key Words: Prevalence, Harvesting, Farmers, Musculoskeletal Pain, Vibration syndrome, Disability

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