Patellofemoral pain syndrome is characterized by severe pain around the knee cap during physical activities. Many researches have been done to describe the causes of PFP and it is found that it is multifactorial in nature. It is suggested that Patellofemoral pain can persist for many years and can cause decline in sports participation. Muscular imbalance and over activity are major causes of knee pain in Sports related PFP .Multiple management strategies are used in the intervention protocol of PFP however, more research is required to find potential causes of knee pain and its management in sport sciences. Objective: The aim of this study is to find out prevalence of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome among Sports Sciences students in Lahore. Methods: This is an observational study; cross sectional survey with 306 estimated sample size 288 participants were respondents but remaining 18 were non respondents and data is collected from students of sports sciences department in mentioned universities using Kujala Scoring questionnaire. Data is entered and analyzed using SPSS version 21. Results: The results shows that age of participants were between 19 to 25 years. Number of male(62.15%) participants were more than female(37.85%) participants .prevalence of PFP among sports sciences students is 63.54%( N=183) with mild or no symptoms of anterior knee pain, 26.74%(N=77) with moderate symptoms and 9.72% (N=28) with severe symptoms of Patellofemoral pain syndrome. Conclusion: According to the results we concluded that there are mild or no symptoms of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome in 63.54 % Sports Sciences Students in Lahore,26.74 % Sport Sciences Students have moderate symptoms of Anterior Knee joint Pain and 9.72% Sports Sciences Students have severe Symptoms Of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Background: Neck pain is a sensation of discomfort in the dorsal and lateral side of cervical spine due to postural or mechanical faults. It affects health - status, work productivity and multiple interventions are used to treat neck pain. Aim: To check the prevalence of neck pain, its effects on quality of life of software engineers of Lahore city. Methodology: This was an observational study Cross-sectional survey. Three hundred and thirty eight participants with minimum one year of job experience in software house were included in the study. Neck pain disability and quality of life were observed by using NDI and SF-12 respectively. Data was entered and analyzed by SSS 22.0.s Results: Results showed the prevalence as mild, moderate, severe and complete neck pain disability in software engineers was 150(44.38%), 68(20.12%), 19(5.62%) and 3(0.89%) respectively and 98(28.99%) participants were without neck pain. There are more male participants 86(25.44%) without neck pain than female participants 12(3.55%) without neck pain. Neck pain showed no significant association with age of software engineers because p > 0.05 in chi-square test. There were fewer participants with excellent and poor physical health 8.28% and 10.36% respectively. Conclusion: Neck pain is common in software engineers of Lahore city. Neck pain is more prevalent in female software engineers as compared to male. Severe neck pain declined their Physical health and complete neck pain caused disability. They are facing the physical health issues with resulting limitations in their routine office work, physical activities and social activities. Neck pain is associated with gender and physical health of software engineers. Keywords: Neck pain, quality of life, software engineers, Lahore city
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