1Undergraduate student, Saveetha Dental College
2Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
3Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Technical Sciences, Poonamalle, Chennai, India
*Corresponding Author: A. Jothi Priya, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Technical and Medical Science, Saveetha University, Chennai, e-mail: a.jothipriya88@gmail.com, Contact Number: 8778996993
Online published on 23 December, 2019.
Dental surgeons often cannot avoid prolonged static postures. Even in optimal seated postures, more than one-half of the muscles of the body are contracted statically. This may result in damaging physiological changes that can lead to back, neck, or shoulder pain or MSDs. The aim is to determine the muscular endurance among dentist and to compare dentists with and without occupational cervicobrachial disorders.
This study is questionnaire based survey. The survey comprises of questions pertaining to the muscular endurance among dentists. This survey was administered to the participants through a survey planet link. 100 people responded this survey. Based on the responses the results obtained and statistically analysed.
The study reveals that the majority of the dentist had musculoskeletal skeletal disorders which in turn affected their practice.
The physical load among dentists seems to put them at risk for the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders. Many dentists experience the MSDs, especially in cervical region, as a consequence of occupational stresses. Therefore, detecting occupational risk factors, standards of work position, regular exercise and following ergonomic policy are intensely recommended. Prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms among dentists represents a major occupational health issue for dentists and result revealed necessitates the need of workshops to create awareness of ergonomics as effective measures for reducing MSD among dentists.
Dentists, musculoskeletal disorders, physical load
