THE ASSOCIATION OF SITTING POSTURE AND CERVICOGENIC PAIN AMONG THE STUDENTS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and association of cervicogenic pain and poor sitting posture among the students of Physical Therapy. A cross sectional survey was conducted among the students through convenient sampling, aged 18 – 30 years. A Structure questionnaire was used to collect the data. Both descriptive and interference statistics were used to analyzed the data. A cross- sectional study design was selected for this study. Students (n=100) has been selected from the different private and government Physical Therapy institutes of Karachi. From the sample size (n=100) including students of Physical Therapy, had studying for more than 8 hours. During the analysis of data it was found that 71% of students were aware about the correct sitting posture and only in 36% of students' cervicogenic pain is the reason of decrease their activities. The result of the study shows that the prevalence of cervicogenic pain is higher among the students but poor sitting posture is not consistent reason of pain there were other associated factors too. Maximum numbers of students were aware about the correct posture during sitting for study and using computer. Among entire population ratio of pain was higher in female than male students.