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Rev Cub de Med Fis y Rehab 2016; 8 (2)

Neck pain. Causes and risk factors in the population of a medical office

Prendes LE, García DJÁ, Bravo AT, Martín CJ, Pedroso MI

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 202-214
PDF size: 189.13 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: the neck pain is a disease originated for different causes, among them are emphasized the degenerative for mechanic factors. A minimum alteration of the neck movement has a functional and professional repercussion. The neck pain increases its frequency in medical consultation.
Objective: to determinate the risk factors related with neck pain in a medical consulter in Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, in population older than 15 years.
Method: a questioner of 15 questions was applied included general data and factors related with neck pain it was a descriptive study, retrospective and transversal to a representative sample of 557 persons.
Results: that the neck pain referred in any moment of the life predominates in patients that work seated, those who make manual work, in professional drivers and house wives; the presence of pain and use of computers 36,4 % are and important risk factors for neck pain like the visual problems 69,3 %.
Conclusions: it was evidenced that the neck pain is related with risk factors most of them modifiable with health actions of promotion and prevention.


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