The association between postural alignment and psychosocial factors to upper quadrant pain in high school students: A prospective study

Brink, Yolandi; Crous, L.; Louw, Quinette; Grimmer, Karen; Schreve, Kristiaan

doi:10.1016/j.math.2009.02.005

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“…Researchers has been trying to quantify muscle activities, to examine the physical impact of the use computers on the MSK system of children, to identify or propose risk factors for development of MSDs, or to compare paper-based tasks with computerbased ones in order to quantify the variation in muscle activity regarding the computer use of children. (Oates et al 1998;Leaser et al 1998;Ciccarelli et al 2006;Breen et al 2007;Maslen and Straker 2009;Straker et al 2008a, b;Straker et al 2009a;Brink et al 2009;Harris 2010;Zovkic et al 2011;Dockrell et al 2010). However, there are very few studies about new mobile technologies such as laptops and tablet PCs and risks associated with their use by children for educational purposes.…”

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Posture, Musculoskeletal Activities, and Possible Musculoskeletal Discomfort Among Children Using Laptops or Tablet Computers for Educational Purposes: A Literature Review

Binboğa

Korhan

2014

J Sci Educ Technol

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Educational ergonomics focuses on the interaction between educational performance and educational design. By improving the design or pointing out the possible problems, educational ergonomics can be utilized to have positive impacts on the student performance and thus on education process. Laptops and tablet computers are becoming widely used by school children and beginning to be used effectively for educational purposes. As the latest generation of laptops and tablet computers are mobile and lightweight compared to conventional personal computers, they support student-centred interaction-based learning. However, these technologies have been introduced into schools with minimal adaptations to furniture or attention to ergonomics. There are increasing reports of an association between increased musculoskeletal (MSK) problems in children and use of such technologies. Although children are among the users of laptops and tablet computers both in their everyday lives and at schools, the literature investigating MSK activities and possible MSK discomfort regarding children using portable technologies is limited. This study reviews the literature to identify published studies that investigated posture, MSK activities, and possible MSK discomfort among children using mobile technologies (laptops or tablet computers) for educational purposes. An electronic search of the literature published in English between January 1994 and January 2014 was performed in several databases. The literature search terms were identified and combined to search the databases. The search results that the resources investigating MSK outcomes of laptop or tablet use of children are very scarce. This review points out the research gaps in this field, and identifying areas for future studies.

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Posture, Musculoskeletal Activities, and Possible Musculoskeletal Discomfort Among Children Using Laptops or Tablet Computers for Educational Purposes: A Literature Review

Binboğa

Korhan

2014

J Sci Educ Technol

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“…5,6 Individuals who experience musculoskeletal pain during adolescence are more likely to have musculoskeletal pain in adulthood. [7][8][9][10] Studies investigating the course of pain over time report that lifelong patterns of musculoskeletal pain that can appear stable and unchanging in adulthood may begin in childhood. 11,12 However, to date, research on the epidemiology of musculoskeletal conditions has focused mainly on adult populations, 11,[13][14][15] which are likely to identify risk factors for new episodes of musculoskeletal pain (often confounded by the experience of previous pain) rather than true risk factors for the first initial onset of musculoskeletal pain.…”

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Are Sleep Problems a Risk Factor for the Onset of Musculoskeletal Pain in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review

Andreucci

Campbell

Dunn

2017

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Study Objectives: Musculoskeletal pain is a major burden on the society. Adults with sleep problems are at higher risk of musculoskeletal pain onset, but there is no evidence for this relationship in children and adolescents. This study aimed to systematically review prospective studies on the risk of musculoskeletal pain onset in children and adolescents with sleep problems. Methods: Five databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, AMED, EMBASE, and HMIC) were systematically searched to identify prospective studies that investigated if children and adolescents (aged 6-19 years) with sleep problems are at higher risk of musculoskeletal pain onset. Included studies were assessed for study quality and a best evidence synthesis was carried out on extracted data. Results: Thirteen prospective studies were identified. Overall, evidence indicates that sleep problems (quality, quantity, and day time tiredness) are not risk factors for musculoskeletal pain onset. Further analysis on specific body regions shows strong evidence that sleep problems are a risk factor for neck pain onset (only in girls) and that sleep problems are not a risk factor for the onset of widespread pain. Conclusions: Overall, sleep problems are not a risk factor for musculoskeletal pain onset in children and adolescents. Increased risk was found for some specific body regions and subgroups, but the evidence base was less strong and generally inconsistent. This review found a lack of quality in research methodology compared to research in adults, and further research with improved methodology is required.

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“…It is therefore necessary to evaluate the lumbopelvic sitting posture simultaneously with the thoracic and cervical sitting postures when evaluating postural sitting alignment over time and its association with NSP among adolescents. Brink et al (2008) reported that only an EOR or extreme cervical angle (as defined in the methodology) was a risk factor for the development of NSP among computing adolescents. Therefore differences between the students who had extreme cervical angles (case) and those who did not (control) were investigated in the current study.…”

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“…The first (beginning of the task) and third (ten minutes into the task) photographs were analyzed using specially designed Intellect software in a similar manner to the process followed in the validity and reliability testing of the PPAM (Van Niekerk et al 2008). Brink et al (2008) reported that the only postural angle that predicted the onset of NSP, was an extreme cervical angle either ≤ 34.75º or ≥ 43.95º. Therefore the group was subdivided into two groups.…”

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“…However there is no published literature that has investigated the association between sitting postures while using computers and NSP among adolescents (Straker et al 2008a). A prospective study by Brink et al (2008) found that the end-of-range (EOR) lower cervical angle was predictive of computer-related NSP among adolescents. Studies have found positive associations between static or flexed working postures and NSP among adolescents (Murphy et al 2004;Niemi et al 1996) as well as positive associations between prolonged sitting during computer use and NSP among adolescents (Auvinen et al 2007;Smith et al 2008a).…”

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The inﬂuence of computer use on the sitting posture of high school students who develop neck and shoulder pain

Brink¹,

Hillier²,

Louw³

et al. 2009

South African Journal of Physiotherapy

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The prevalence of neck and shoulder pain (NSP) is increas-ing in adolescents and is related to increased time spent on computers.The inﬂuence of sitting posture on the development of computer-relatedNSP among adolescents is unclear. This study investigated how the sittingposture of the upper quadrant changes over a ten minute period ofcomputer use in once asymptomatic adolescents who later developed NSP.M ethod: Sitting alignment was measured using the Photographic PostureA nalysis Method. The students performed a typing task while two con -secutive photographs were taken ten minutes apart. The students werefollowed for six months and the photographs of those who developed NSPw ere analy z ed.R esults: The results show that there is no signiﬁcant change in sitting posture over time. Observationally the most common pattern was to move from a more ﬂexed posture to a more upright posture and there were greater posturalchanges in the case group (students with extreme cervical angles) compared to the control group (students with thepreferred cervical ROM (34.75º - 43.95º)), although both ﬁndings were not statistically signiﬁcant.Conclusion: There was no change, over a ten minute period, in the sitting posture of computing high school studentswho developed computer-related NSP after six months therefore students should be encouraged to avoid monotonoussitting in front of computers because this could be associated with NSP.

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The association between postural alignment and psychosocial factors to upper quadrant pain in high school students: A prospective study

Cited by 52 publications

References 29 publications

Posture, Musculoskeletal Activities, and Possible Musculoskeletal Discomfort Among Children Using Laptops or Tablet Computers for Educational Purposes: A Literature Review

Posture, Musculoskeletal Activities, and Possible Musculoskeletal Discomfort Among Children Using Laptops or Tablet Computers for Educational Purposes: A Literature Review

Are Sleep Problems a Risk Factor for the Onset of Musculoskeletal Pain in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review

The inﬂuence of computer use on the sitting posture of high school students who develop neck and shoulder pain

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