Prevalence of cervical spondylosis and musculoskeletal symptoms among coolies in a City of Bangladesh

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-73

  Mahbub, Md H ^a,e   Laskar, Md S ^a   Seikh, Farid A ^b   Altaf, Md H ^c   Inoue, Masaiwa ^a   Yokoyama, Kenjiro ^a   Wakui, Tadaki ^d   Harada, Noriaki ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

^c DHAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Bangladesh)

^d UBE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Cervical spondylosis; Coolies; Musculoskeletal symptoms; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CHI SQUARE TEST; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; X RAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33644501783     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.48.69     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. KB Jumah and PK Nyame: Relationship between load carrying on the head and cervical spondylosis in Ghanaians. West Afr J Med 13, 181-182 (1994)
2. WF Lestini and SW Wiesel: The pathogenesis of cervical spondylosis. Clin Orthop 12, 69-93 (1989)
3. JM Jr Fenlin: Pathology of degenerative disease of the cervical spine. Orthop Clin North Am 2, 371-387 (1971)
4. HJ Jager, L Gordon-Harris, UM Mehring, GF Goetz and KD Mathias: Degenerative changes in the cervical spine and load-carrying on the head. Skeletal Radiol 26, 475-481 (1997)
5. L Levy: Porter's neck. Br Med J 2, 16-19 (1968)
6. E Hartwig, M Schultheiss, S Kramer, V Elbert, L Kinzyl and M Kramer: Occupational disease 2108. Degenerative changes of the cervical spine as a causality criterion in the assessment of discogenic diseases according to BeKV 2108. Unfallchirurg 106, 306-312 (2003)
7. BM McCormack and PR Weinstein: Cervical spondylosis. An update. West J Med 165, 43-51 (1996)
8. JG Heller: The syndromes of degenerative cervical disease. Orthop Clin North Am 23, 381-394 (1992)
9. WF Young: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: a common cause of spinal cord dysfunction in older persons. Am Fam Physician 62, 1064-1070 (2000)
10. FE Valergakis: Cervical spondylosis: most common cause of position and vibratory sense loss. Geriatrics 31, 51-56 (1976)
11. C Czech, R Czech, A Seibt and AD Freude: Functional changes of the cervical spine and shoulder-neck region in workers employed in textile sewing. Z Gesamte Hyg 36, 61-64 (1990)
12. M Joosab, M Torode and PV Rao: Preliminary findings on the effect of load carrying to the structural integrity of the cervical spine. Surg Radio Anat 16, 393-398 (1994)
13. L Kuorinka, B Johnson, A Kilbom, H Vinterberg, F Biering-Sorensen, G Andersson and K Jorgensen: Standardised Nordic questionnaires for the analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms. Appl Ergonom 18, 233-237 (1987)
14. JH Kellgren and JS Lawrence: Osteo-arthrosis and disk degeneration in an urban population. Ann Rheum Dis 17, 388-397 (1958)
15. JE Zejda and B Stasiow: Cervical spine degenerative changes (narrowed intervertebral disc spaces and osteophytes) in coal miners. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 16, 49-53 (2003)
16. JJ Echarri and F Forriol: Effect of axial load on the cervical spine: a study of Congolese woodbearers. Int Orthop 26, 141-144 (2002)
17. M Hagberg and DH Wegman: Prevalence rates and odds ratios of shoulder-neck diseases in different occupational groups. Br J Ind Med 44, 602-610 (1987)
18. JM Bremner, JS Lawrence and WE Mial: Degenerative joint disease in a Jamaican rural population. Ann Rheum Dis 27, 326-332 (1968)
19. G Pallis, AM Jones and JD Spillane: Cervical spondylosis. Incidence and complication. Brain 77, 274 (1954)
20. Z Ahmed, M Khan and N Islam: Cervical spondylosis. Asian Med J 25, 271-277 (1992)
21. MD Connell and SW Wiesel: Natural history and pathogenesis of cervical disc disease. Orthop Clin North Am 23, 369-380 (1992)
22. JS Lawrence: Disc degeneration: its frequency and relation to symptoms. Ann Rheum Dis 28, 121-138 (1969)
23. HH Bohlmann and SE Emery: Pathophysiology of cervical spondylosis and myelopathy. Spine 13, 843-846 (1989)