Prevalence of common musculoskeletal problems seen in special school children’s in rural area

Nikita H. Seth, Ashish W. Bele, Sakshi K. Kariya, Mohd. Irshad Qureshi, Nivedita C. Singh

Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

This paper outlines the importance of a healthy well-being of brain which is reflected by a good stance and posture. The most prevailing complain among special school children is found to be postural defects. Various special schools of rural areas were taken in consideration, that is total 70 special students were selected, from various special schools. The informed consent was obtained. They were provided with Numerical pain rating scale and Questionnaire. Using inferential statistics and descriptive method statistical analysis was done it proved to be highly significant.Our research showed that maximum number of children of special school had knee pain as compared to other joints, hamstrings pain being most common, with back pain more common than whole body pain. The study concluded that most of special school children have knee pain, hamstrings pain, back pain most commonly with respect to age and gender.

Keywords:

physically challenged, differently abled, hamstring pain, back pain, joint pain