Prevalence and Risk Factors of Work Related Injuries among Physical Therapists in Indian Population

ACKGROUND This study is intended to find out prevalence of work related musculoskeletal injuries among physical therapists in Indian population, as physical therapists has to do many repetitive movements of upper limb and trunk, prolonged postural position and different handling position for pediatric patients, neurological patients, orthopedic patients which may lead to injury. So this study is done find out risk factors which leads to injury and in future we can use the right treatment strategy and posture. METHODOLOGY JFQ questionnaire and self administered questionnaire is used for screening of musculoskeletal pain and discomforts. Clinical therapists and lecturer and lecturer with clinical practice persons are to be taken. RESULT result shows that there is 68 % of physical therapist have WRMDs, In our study we found maximum WRMDs in pediatric physical therapist and neurological physical therapist and those who are using manual therapy technique everyday. This study found that the most common areas which are more prone for WRMDs are low back pain (41.66 %) and neck pain (26.66 %). INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION there is work related musculoskeletal discomfort and pain in physical therapists. Female physical therapists are more prone to have more discomfort and pain than males. Occupation, musculoskeletal injury, JFQ questionnaire, prevalence.