FRECUENCIA Y FACTORES ASOCIADOS AL DOLOR DE CUELLO Y ESPALDA EN LOS ESTUDIANTES DE VI A X SEMESTRES DE LAS CLINICAS ODONTOLOGICAS DE LA UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS

Purpose: To establish the frequency and related factors to neck pain and back pain in the students who have been working in the dentistry clinics from the Santo Tomas University, by mean of a descriptive and observational study.Material and methods: The information was collected through a test, which was made to the whole population of students from sixth to tenth semester of the dentistry faculty (112 students), in the 2002 second period and 2003 first period.Results: It was established that, frequency of back pain was 22% and neck pain 15.5% in the students before they were be admitted to clinics, and after that, frequency of back pain was 67.8% and neck pain 52.2%. It shows a clear increase in the frequency of these complaints with the beginning of the dentistry clinical practice. It was found that, stress is a statistically significative factor with the presentation of back and neck pain in this population. Other factors such as age, chair comfort and bad postures, weren’t statistically significative. The later is in contradiction with others studies that established them like strong related factors to such alterations.Conclusions: It’s a very important point, to create and execute promotion and prevention programs to healthy postural habits in dentistry students, to avoid inadequate postures and musculoeskeletal disorders and guided to decrease the back and neck alterations in the students and so, in the future professionals of dentistry.

• Autores: Figueredo R., Alix R.; Martínez B., Suleyma; Rodríguez H., Natividad; Rueda M., Gabriela; Camargo L., Diana M.; Guzmán T., Miguel Ángel
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Repositorio: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/37139
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/USTASALUD_ODONTOLOGIA/article/view/1836; http://hdl.handle.net/11634/37139
• License: Derechos de autor 2018 UstaSalud