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Prevalence of Upper Limb Dysfunction in Subjects with Chronic non Specific Neck Pain in Bangalore City, Karnataka
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Objective: To find out the prevalence of upper limb dysfunction in subjects with non specific neck pain. Summary of the background data: Non specific neck pain is highly prevalent in women particularly of working age. Upper limb disorder and disability/ dysfunction are one of the most important factors that have been discovered in the management outcome for nonspecific neck pain. Single Arm Military Press (SAMP) test has been used to measure the level of upper limb dysfunction in neck pain population. With a high prevalence of non specific neck pain in India either due to their occupation or age it becomes important to quantify the rate of upper limb dysfunction in Indian population in their working environment so that further measures can be taken to address upper limb dysfunction in the course of management of non specific neck pain.
Method: Seventy two (72) subjects fulfilling the inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria were taken up for the study. The upper limb dysfunction was measured for all the subjects for both the hands. Descriptive statistical analysis was carried out for this study. Results on continuous measurements are presented on Mean SD (Min-Max) and results on categorical measurements are presented in Number (%) with level of significance set at 0.05. The comparison between the categorical measurements has been analyzed using one sample t- test.
Results: Of the 72 subjects 93.1% had upper limb dysfunction as determined by the test scores. The mean and standard deviation of SAMP score for the right hand was 20.44 ± 5.25 and for the left hand it was 18.49 ± 4.49. The comparison between the mean scores of right and left upper limb was done to show a cumulative finding using one sample t- test and it was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Upper limb dysfunction has been found to be highly prevalent in subjects with non specific neck pain working women in Bangalore city, India.
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