2017, Number 1-2
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Rev Mex Med Fis Rehab 2017; 29 (1-2)
Cervicalgia behavior in the population of a medical office
Prendes LE, García DJÁ, Bravo AT, Martín CJ, Pedroso MI
Language: Spanish
References: 22
Page: 6-13
PDF size: 176.62 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The neck pain is a disease characterized with pain of variable intensity in the neck rear which may radiate and become limiting for the activity. Lately it increases its frequency in medical consult; it has been published that 50% of the general population has it in sometime of life.
Objective: To determinate the behavior as a health problem of neck pain in a medical consulter in Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, in population older than 15 years. Methods: A questionary of 8 questions was applied that included general data and factors related with neck pain. It was a descriptive study, retrospective and transversal to a representative sample of 557 persons.
Results: The 56.8% of the sample corresponded to the female sex, university student predominated 30.4%, and middle technicians 27.1%, the 58.5% of the patients (326) referred neck pain in sometime of their life, with a predominance in women 67.8%.
Conclusions: It was evidenced that the neck pain constitutes an existent health problem in more than half of the population in a health area of Havana, Cuba.
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