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Arbetsställningars inverkan på muskel- och ledbesvär hos Skånes tandhygienister

The aim of this study was to examine musculoskeletal disorders among dental hygienists inrelation to work postures (sitting, standing, and altering) and to study differences in thegroups regarding numbers of disorders, locations and degrees. A mail questionnaire wasdistributed among 200 dental hygienists in the region of Skåne. The response rate was 79 %.The majority of the dental hygienists were working in a sitting position. Only43 dental hygienists were altering their working position and two were working in a standingposition. The results showed that 85 % of the dental hygienists have experiencedmusculoskeletal disorders in the last 12 months. Seven different complaint areas weredescribed and multiple complaints from two-three areas were most common. Numbers andlocations of disorders were similar between the sitting and altering groups. Most of the dentalhygienist has a low degree of pain but the numbers of dental hygienists in per cent with severepain is most common in the sitting group. No significant differences can bee seen but thetendency in per cent shows that the dental hygienists in the altering group has less number ofdisorders and in a lower degree than the dental hygienists in the sitting group.

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Birgitte Eriksson Marie Kollath Sjölin

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Högskolan Kristianstad/Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper

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