Prevalence of nontraumatic foot pain among urban young working women and its contributing factors

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 630-633

  Chua, Yeok Pin ^a   Tan, Wei Jing ^b   Ahmad Yahya, Tunku Sara Tunku ^a   Saw, Aik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Sultanah Fatimah Specialist Hospital   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

High heels; Nontraumatic foot pain; Young women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FOOT PAIN; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUMERIC INTENSITY SCALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SHOE; URBAN POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOOT; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SHOES; SINGAPORE; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN, WORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887859674     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2013223     Document Type: Article

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