Raj, Navien Arul and Usman, Juliana and Khan, Saad Jawaid and Goh, Siew Li (2022) The prevalence of lower limb musculoskeletal pain symptoms during stop and go driving. In: 6th Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2021, 28-29 July 2021, Virtual, Online.
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The prevalence of musculoskeletal pain among drivers during stop and go driving can be regarded as a common public health predicament. The action of frequent and prolonged driving in traffic congestion were distinguished as the prime contributors towards the musculoskeletal problem among drivers. This study emphasised on the importance to comprehend the relationship of the contributors towards the occurrence of musculoskeletal pain. Three hundred and twenty (N = 320) drivers responded in this cross-sectional survey study aimed to investigate the widespread of musculoskeletal pain symptoms specifically the knee pain symptom experienced by drivers during congested driving conditions. However, only one hundred and eighty (N = 180) drivers frequently drive during peak time and in congested driving conditions. The 180 drivers were segregated as targeted drivers and were tested for the relationship of two variables (frequency and prolonged driving in traffic) towards the prevalence of knee pain. The findings showed that the targeted drivers have experienced foot pain (64.4) and knee pain (51.1) more commonly while driving in the tested condition. A Pearson Chi Square statistical test was used to analyse the association of frequent and prolonged driving variables towards the prevalence of drivers experiencing knee pain had showed statistically non-significant relationship. Thus, other contributing risk parameters should be necessarily investigated for their influence towards the prevalence of knee pain among drivers to minimize and prevent the musculoskeletal pain symptoms. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia [Grant no. FP130-2019A], Universiti Malaya [Grant no. RF009A-2018] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Knee pain; Prolonged driving; Repetitive movement |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering > Department of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Medicine > Sport Medicine Department |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2025 04:43 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2025 04:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/43451 |
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