Nejati P, Lotfian S, Moezy A, Nejati M. (2015) The study of correlation between forward head posture and neck pain in Iranian office workers.

Notes

This study compares office workers with neck pain to office workers with no neck pain to to measure posture differences between the two populations. The point of the study it to see if posture may have an effect on neck pain. They found that the neck pain group had worse posture than then no pain group.

• Prolonged sitting at work or improper posture of head during work may have a great role in neck pain occurrence among office employees, particularly among those who work with computers.
• Although some studies claim a significant difference in head posture between patients and pain-free participants, in literature forward head posture (FHP) has not always been associated with neck pain.
• The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between poor posture and neck pain in office workers.
• Study compared postures of 46 subjects without neck pain to 55 with neck pain using a photographic method.
• Findings revealed that office employees had poor posture while working and that poor posture was more severe in office workers who suffered from neck pain.

Abstract

Introduction: Factors such as prolonged sitting at work or improper posture of head during work may have a great role in neck pain occurrence among office employees, particularly among those who work with computers. Although some studies claim a significant difference in head posture between patients and pain-free participants, in literature the forward head posture (FHP) has not always been associated with neck pain. Since head, cervical and thoracic postures and their relation with neck pain has not been studied in Iranian office employees, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between some work-related and individual factors, such as poor posture, with neck pain in the office employees.

Material and methods: It was a cross-sectional correlation study carried out to explore the relationship between neck pain and sagittal postures of cervical and thoracic spine among office employees in forward looking position and also in a working position. Forty-six subjects without neck pain and 55 with neck pain were examined using a photographic method. Thoracic and cervical postures were measured using the high thoracic (HT) and craniovertebral (CV) angles, respectively.

Results: High thoracic and CV angles were positively correlated with the presence of neck pain only in working position (p < 0.05). In forward looking position, there was no statistically significant difference between the 2 groups (p > 0.05).

Conclusions: Our findings have revealed that office employees had a defective posture while working and that the improper posture was more severe in the office employees who suffered from the neck pain.

Keywords: craniovertebral angle; forward head posture; high thoracic angle; neck pain; office employee.

This work is available in Open Access model and licensed under a CC BY-NC 3.0 PL license.

Citation

Nejati P, Lotfian S, Moezy A, Nejati M. The study of correlation between forward head posture and neck pain in Iranian office workers. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2015;28(2):295-303. doi: 10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00352. PMID: 26182924.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26182924/

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