ArticleLa Medicina del lavoro2018
Approach to prevention of musculoskeletal symptoms in dental students: an interventional study.
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- Prevention of Musculoskeletal Diseases and Pain among Dental Professionals through Ergonomic Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Understanding the Burden of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Dental Students: A Multinational Cohort Study.European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2026Article
- Neck Pain in Dental Education: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Neck Strength Differences.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence and preventive measures of spinal musculoskeletal disorders among dentists at the University Dental Hospital of Monastir: a cross-sectional study.The Pan African medical journal · 2025Article
- Measuring the Effect of an Ergonomic Lecture on the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment Scores of Dental Assistant Students Using Inertial Sensor-Based Motion Capture-A Randomized Controlled Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Neck Disability Index Detects Higher Neck-Related Disability Levels among Physiotherapists and Family Medicine Specialists than among Dentists.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A Change Management Approach to Promoting and Endorsing Ergonomics within a Dental Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association between work-related musculoskeletal symptoms and quality of life among dental students: a cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Ergonomic Risk Assessment of Dental Students-RULA Applied to Objective Kinematic Data.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Musculoskeletal Disorder Symptoms in Saudi Allied Dental Professionals: Is there an Underestimation of Related Occupational Risk Factors?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundWork-related musculoskeletal (MS) disorders are very common among dentists due to abnormal positions maintained during their work. There is the need to teach undergraduate students ergonomic procedures to prevent MS pain and disorders.
methodsAll the students of the School of Dentistry at the University of Trieste were enrolled for the study (No. 55). A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect anthropometric information, previous or current diseases, MS pain and disorders and work tasks performed. All students attended a training course. Three months after the training they completed a follow-up questionnaire.
resultsAll students reported MS pain: higher at cervical level (91%), lower at lumbosacral level (64.2%), shoulders (43.6%), and wrist/hand level (41.8%). Forty-nine percent of students reported an improvement in pain symptoms (p<0.05) 3 months after the training.
conclusionsThe prevalence of pain symptoms was high but the training course helped reduce symptoms. Theory and practice of ergonomics should be incorporated into dental undergraduate curricula.
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