Abstract:
Purpose: To identify the characteristics of neck pain among the patient attending in
Musculoskeletal unit, CRP. Objectives: to explore the socio demographic information
of people suffered with neck pain; to identify the lifestyle related information of
people suffered with neck pain; to find out the information about vulnerable posture
suffered with neck pain and to focus the work and posture related information and the
severity of pain. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted with a
structured and close ended interviewer administered questionnaire to collect
information from 55 neck pain patient in respects through convenient sampling
procedure. Data was numerically coded and captured in Microsoft excel, using an
SPSS 16.0 version software program. Results: Among 55 participants with neck pain,
This study showed female participants about 54.50% were most affected part
predominantly rather than Male (45.5%) and its contributory portion were
combination of occupation like job, service holder etc about 45.50%, Majority of the
participants came from rural area (50.90%), maximum participants represents were
between 51-60 years of age, 92.70% participants feeling pain during movement,
maximum patients complain with moderate neck pain (63.60%), 61.80% participants were having fair health status and highest number of participants having radiating
pain (58.20%) and also 40.0% patient not having any previous episode of neck pain,
67.3% participants preferred side lying position during sleeping, large number of
participants experienced as intermittent pain that was about 58.2% where as pain
frequency for maximum participants were constant & that was 40%, Most of the
participants sitting for most of the time in a day (52.7%). Conclusion: The result of
the current study indicates that higher prevalence of neck pain can be involved the
characteristics percentage among people in Bangladesh. These study to them a
baseline for the physiotherapy services provision for the patient with neck pain.
