Prevalência de distúrbios osteomusculares em docentes de uma instituiçâo de ensino superior em Trindade-GO

Abstract

The present study discusses the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in higher education teachers at an institution in Trindade-GO. It seeks to understand the location of the symptomatology and the relationship between the lifestyle and the causal factor of these pains in the teachers studied. The data collection was based on a socio-demographic questionnaire and a Nordic questionnaire which gave subsidies for a more detailed analysis of the lifestyle, time of teaching, weekly workload, participation in physical activity, among other aspects, considering the last 12 months and the seven days preceding the completion of the questionnaires. The results found in the research are in agreement with those present in the specialized literature, since most of the authors demonstrated in their studies that there is a high prevalence of these disorders among teachers where in the present study the main regions affected by these lesions are: lumbar region, neck, back, shoulders, knee, ankles and feet and in general most of the teachers of the research institution present some type of musculoskeletal disorder.