Prevalence of Neck Pain Among Tailors in Ahmedabad

Introduction: Neck pain commonly occurs in many occupations, such as IT professionals, dentists and bankers. This occupation involves static prolonged posture with cervical flexion, which is less explored in the occupational hazard industry. Neck pain in such occupations is due to abnormal posture and working for a prolonged period of time. However, tailoring involves sitting for prolonged hours, upper limb activity and functional limitation of shoulder and scapular movements. Due to constant keep neck flexion, repetitive strain and weak muscles more neck pain among the tailor population. Despite covering a larger population in the community, tailors have negligible importance in ergonomic care. The need of the study is to find the prevalence of neck pain among tailors. Methods: An observational study was conducted on 100 subjects aged 25–55 years. The data was collected with the help of the Copenhagen Neck Functional Disability Scale (CNFDS). Results: CNFDS score showed that a total of 100 subjects 53.9% subject answered yes, 44.4% subject answered occasionally had neck pain and 1.7% subject answered no to the neck pain questionnaire. Conclusion: The study shows that a greater number of tailors have no disability. Findings also concluded that significant number of tailors were suffered from mild disability and very few tailors among the participants suffered from moderate disability.