scholarly journals The Role of Body Weight and Growing in Body Height to Nonspecific Musculoskeletal Pain in a Cohort of Bosnia and Herzegovina Schoolchildren

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurka Pranjic ◽  
Selma Azabagic
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
School Children ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
Musculosceletal Pain

Background Children often suffer the nonspecific musculosceletal pain as reported in literature. Aim To determine relationship between body weights with development of musculoskeletal pain and to determine whether growing in body height is associated with musculoskeletal pain in schoolchildren. Subjects/ Methods A prospective longitudinal study included 1315 school children aged 7-14 years (652 boys and 663 girls) and was performed in 13 elementary schools in B&H. Child body height and body weight were measured. The survey of perception of musculoskeletal pain in different body regions of subjects was conducted by adjusted Nordic Musculosceletal Questionnaire (NMQ). Results The highest prevalence of an overweight and obesity in the 10th year 35.7% and the lowest frequency 17.8% in the 14th year was. In the age 14th obesity was’nt found. Boys have more prevalence of overweight. Using logistic regression model, we found that school children with normal BMI were protected with increased body height of acute lower back pain (β= -0.089, 95%CI, -9.730- -0.023, P< 0.049), and increased body height was protector of obese school children of acute upper back pain (β= -0.356, 95%CI, -14.077- -3.878, P< 0.001) and chronic lower back pain (β= -0.356, 95%CI, -14.077- -3.878, P< 0.001). Conclusion Schoolchildren with normal weight more often have had musculosceletal pain than those with overweight or obesity. This can be associated with intense physical growth period in height, especially. The assumption is that the increase in height changes the relationship between excessive BMI and musculoskeletal pain in children of school age.

The pain-adaptation model: a discussion of the relationship between chronic musculoskeletal pain and motor activity

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 683-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Lund ◽  
Revers Donga ◽  
Charles G. Widmer ◽  
Christian S. Stohler
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
Temporomandibular Disorders ◽  
Muscle Soreness ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
High Threshold ◽  
Chronic Lower Back Pain ◽  
Lower Back

Articles describing motor function in five chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions (temporomandibular disorders, muscle tension headache, fibromyalgia, chronic lower back pain, and postexercise muscle soreness) were reviewed. It was concluded that the data do not support the commonly held view that the pain of these conditions is maintained by some form of tonic muscular hyperactivity. Instead, it seems clear that in these conditions the activity of agonist muscles is often reduced by pain, even when this does not arise from the muscle itself. On the other hand, pain causes small increases in the level of activity of the antagonist. As a consequence of these changes, force production and the range and velocity of movement of the affected body part are often reduced. To explain how such changes in the behaviour come about, we propose a neuro-physiological model based on the phasic modulation of excitatory and inhibitory interneurons supplied by high-threshold sensory afferents. We suggest that the "dysfunction" that is characteristic of several types of chronic musculoskeletal pain is a normal protective adaptation and is not a cause of pain.Key words: pain, headache, temporomandibular disorders, fibromyalgia, chronic lower back pain, post-exercise muscle soreness.

scholarly journals Association of Mechanical Low Back Pain and Quality of Life in Security Guards

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
Mansi Manoj Muly ◽  
Hally Shah ◽  
Asmaa Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
World Health ◽  
Musculoskeletal Discomfort ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Lower Back

Musculoskeletal Pain affects the bones & soft tissue musculatures. It can be acute or chronic. It can be localized or widespread. Lower back pain (LBP) is the most common type of musculoskeletal pain. It is one of the causes of absenteeism of employees from their work and significantly affecting their quality of life (QoL). Security guards usually involves standing for long duration. Therefore LBP is quite common in them. Changes in posture or poor body mechanics may bring about spine related problems, therefore causing other muscles to be misused and become painful. Very few literatures are available worldwide on prevalence of mechanical LBP & its relation to the QoL in standing workers. Therefore, the aim is to find out the correlation of mechanical LBP and QoL in security guards. Cross sectional study design was chosen for the research. From ninety security guards (male & female, aged 30-50 years) were screened on Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire (CMDQ). Thirty-one security guards were selected after screening, those who met the inclusion criteria (1.5 and above on CMDQ for lower back), informed consent was taken and further assessed on Oswestry LBP Disability Questionnaire (OLBPDQ) and World Health Organization QoL-BREF (WHO-QoL-BREF). In the study, moderately negative correlation was found between the OLBPDQ score & all QoL domains (-0.3, -0.1, -0.5, -0.2), which showed a significant lower QoL domains with severe LBP. Key words: Mechanical Lower back pain, Standing workers, Quality of life.

scholarly journals Diabetes Is Associated with Musculoskeletal Pain, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Rehling ◽  
Anne-Sofie Dam Bjørkman ◽  
Marie Borring Andersen ◽  
Ola Ekholm ◽  
Stig Molsted
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
National Health Survey ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
Diabetes Status ◽  
Reported Data

Aim. To investigate the associations between diabetes and musculoskeletal pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Methods. Self-reported data were provided by the nationwide Danish National Health Survey 2013. Inclusion criteria were age≥40 years and known diabetes status. The exposure variable was diabetes, and the outcome variables included musculoskeletal pain during the last 14 days in three body sites (back/lower back, limbs, and shoulder/neck), osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Logistic regression analyses adjusted for age, gender, BMI, education, marital status, and physical activity were performed. Results. 9,238 participants with diabetes were 65.6±11.0 (mean±SD) years old; 55.6% were males. 99,980 participants without diabetes were 59.2±11.8 years old; 46.7% were males. Diabetes was associated with back/lower back pain (OR 1.2 (CI 95% 1.1-1.2), p<0.001), pain in the limbs (1.4 (1.3-1.4), p<0.001), shoulder/neck pain (1.2 (1.1-1.3), p<0.001), osteoarthritis (1.3 (1.2-1.4), p<0.001), osteoporosis (1.2 (1.1-1.4), p=0.010), and rheumatoid arthritis (1.6 (1.4-1.7), p<0.001). In participants with diabetes, physical activity was associated with reduced pain (e.g., back/lower back pain (0.7 (0.6-0.7), p<0.001)). Conclusion. Diabetes was associated with elevated odds of having musculoskeletal pain. Diabetes was also associated with elevated odds of having osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. The most frequent disease in individuals with diabetes was osteoarthritis. The reported pain may have negative impacts on the level of physical activity. Health-care professionals should remember to inform patients with diabetes that musculoskeletal pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis are not contraindications to exercise training.

scholarly journals Evaluating Short-Term Musculoskeletal Pain Changes in Desk-Based Workers Receiving a Workplace Sitting-Reduction Intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Brakenridge ◽  
Yee Chong ◽  
Elisabeth Winkler ◽  
Nyssa Hadgraft ◽  
Brianna Fjeldsoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
Activity Tracker ◽  
Prolonged Sitting ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
Total Pain ◽  
Upper And Lower Extremities ◽  
Cluster Randomized

This paper explores changes in musculoskeletal pain among desk-based workers over three months of a workplace-delivered, sitting-reduction intervention. Participants (n = 153, 46% female; mean ± SD aged 38.9 ± 8.0 years) were cluster-randomized (n = 18 work teams) to receive an organizational change intervention, with or without an activity tracker. A modified Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire assessed pain intensity (0–9; none–worst possible) in the neck, upper and lower back, upper and lower extremities, and in total. The activPAL3 (7 days, 24 h/day protocol) measured sitting and prolonged sitting in ≥30 min bouts at work. Mixed models adjusting for cluster and intervention arm examined changes in pain (n = 104), and their associations with reductions in sitting and prolonged sitting (h/10 h at work) (n = 90). Changes in pain were nonsignificant (p ≥ 0.05) and small for total pain (−0.06 [95% CI: −0.27, 0.16]) and for each body area (−0.26 [−0.66, 0.15] for upper back to 0.09 [−0.39, 0.56] for lower back). Sitting reduction was associated with reduced lower back pain (−0.84 [−1.44, −0.25] per hour, p = 0.005); other effects were small and non-significant. No substantial average changes in pain were seen; some improvement in lower back pain might be expected with larger sitting reductions. Larger samples and diverse interventions are required for more definitive evidence.

Neck, Upper Back and Lower Back Pain and Associated Risk Factors among Primary School Children

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Azuan K. ◽  
Zailina H. ◽  
Shamsul B.M.T. ◽  
Nurul Asyiqin M.A. ◽  
Mohd Azhar M.N. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
Associated Risk Factors

Changes in the prevalence of overweight/obesity and adiposity among pre-school children in Kraków, Poland, from 2008 to 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 895-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Żegleń ◽  
Łukasz Kryst ◽  
Małgorzata Kowal ◽  
Agnieszka Woronkowicz ◽  
Jan Sobiecki
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
School Children ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Excess Body Weight ◽  
Percentage Body Fat ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
Chi Squared

AbstractSocioeconomic changes occurring over time influence the lifestyle choices of a population, and these can significantly affect children’s body weight and composition. The aim of this study was to assess the changes in prevalence of overweight, obesity and adiposity in pre-school children in Poland between 2008 and 2018. Body height, body weight and subscapular and triceps skinfolds were measured in 2167 children aged 3–7 years from Kraków. Body mass index and adiposity (percentage body fat, %BF) were calculated for the children, who were then categorized as underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese according to Cole’s cut-off points. Adiposity was categorized according to the z-scores for %BF as low (<−1), normal (−1 to 1) or high (>1). Differences between cohorts were analysed using the chi-squared test. Only the decrease in the prevalence of obesity in 5-year-old girls was found to be statistically significant. However, some overall tendencies were noted. Decreases in the prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity were observed for both sexes, as well as in the incidence of high adiposity in boys and low adiposity in girls. Increases in the prevalence of high adiposity in girls and low adiposity in boys were also noted. There was no significant change in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among pre-school children over the study decade, and the visible tendencies included decreases in the prevalence of excess body weight and adiposity as well as underweight and low body fat. Also, the visible trends in adiposity were mostly negative. Further studies should, however, also consider the levels of physical fitness and activity of children, as these have a crucial influence on the measured characteristics.

A Dynamic Response Model of Human Spine Under Superior-Inferior G Loads Using Voigt Viscoelastic Representation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasemin Maria Sarigul-Klijn ◽  
Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Space Vehicles ◽  
Restraint System ◽  
Response Model ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Lower Back

Transportation systems subject the human body to varying levels of vibrations, which causes lower back pain. Some studies presents that exposure to vibrations of 1.3 m/s 2 for ten minutes a day can be harmful even for healthy people. With transportation systems being part of our daily lives it is useful to better predict the effects of vehicle induced oscillations on human via mathematical models. Anthropometry of a person is highly important when it comes to fitting the occupant to the seat with the restraint system together with their mass. Spaceflight travel further complicate matters since 4–6 cm increase in body height can occur during space flight and space vehicles must be designed to accommodate these changes.

Panel Approves Duloxetine for Lower Back Pain

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH MECHCATIE
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
Lower Back
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