Back and upper body musculoskeletal pain and associated factors among medicine and nursing practician students

Description

Health related service demands a long time health care givers stand to save patients life. For this matter doctors and other health professionals engage for long time on patient treatment procedures. In such conditions as much as possible the occupational health and safety components should apply for these health care givers. The proper sitting and standing position needs for professionals. But most of the time compassionated professionals forget and serve selflessly to save the life of patients and could expose to different occupation health problems. In most cases they are liable to back and upper body musculoskeletal pain. So, this work was conducted among medicine and nursing practicing students at university of Gondar, Ethiopia.