Musculoskeletal Disorders

Background: Musculoskeletal Pain (MSKP) represents an important concern for young people and adolescents. Musculoskeletal pain can result pain in the neck, shoulder, arm, wrist, hands, upper and lower back, hips, knees and feet. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal Pain among undergraduate physiotherapy students. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out among 131 undergraduate physiotherapy students comprising of 74 female and 57 male. A self-administered questionnaire was filled out by the respondents. Data analysis and chi-square test were used by using SPSS-21. Results: Most of the undergraduate physiotherapy students had experienced some kind of a musculoskeletal pain at anybody region most commonly reported at the neck shoulder, wrist, lower back, knee, foot with prevalence of 28.1%, 6.3%, 4.7%,37.5%, 7.8% and 6.3% respectively. Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder indicated that among the respondents (n=131), Severity of reported pain was increased during activities (67.2%). In this study, there were one significant result found. This variable name gender(p-.039) and others no significant relations found between relative variables with musculoskeletal pain. It is concluded that the prevalence of musculoskeletal Disorder was fairly high and it is about 71.5%. Conclusion: Overall, our study investigated that musculoskeletal disorder affects physiotherapy students at reasonably high rates. More studies should be done to understand about Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain among undergraduate physiotherapy students.