Sujata Mandhwani, Sadaf Zia, Arsalan Ahmed Shaikh, Erum Tanveer, Salman Matiullah Shaikh.
Association of sedentary life style and musculoskeletal disorders among school going children: an emerging dilemma.
Rawal Med J Jan ;45(4):871-4.

Objective: To assess the association of sedentary life style and musculoskeletal disorders in school going children. Methodology: This was a cross sectional survey and data were collected from different private schools of Karachi. A sample size of 385 school going children from 6th to 10th standard of both gender were selected. A face to face interview was conducted and a Questionnaire was given. A self-administered Nordic questionnaire was used for collecting the data. Results: A total of 385 subjects participated and 185(48.1%) were male and 200(51.9%) female. Physical activity was done by 372(96.6%) participants for 1-5 hours and 13(3.4%) for 6-10 hours. Those with sitting posture using mobile phone had pain in upper back in 123(31.9%) of participant after sitting for 1-5 hours. Conclusion: Sedentary life style predisposed study participants for having pain/ache/ in number of different parts of body. This was more common in neck followed by upper back.

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