The Epidemiologic Survey Of Neck Pain

Objective:Through the epidemiological investigation of neck pain,to reflect the incidence of neck pain characteristics,clinical manifestations, risk factors and the efficacy of various treatment,analysis the causes of neck pain and provide a basis for the prevention of neck pain and clinical treatment.Methods:Studying the neck pain related articles,development the neck pain-related questionnaire(See below the questionnaire).Conducted a random survey of 5000 among the orthopedic outpatients in January 2008 to January 2009 in Shanghai Changzheng Hospital.Uniform data collection, then use SPSS statistical software to statistical analysis the data.Study the natural history,characteristics of the incidence,occurrence,clinical manifestations,risk factors,a variety of treatment efficacy,the cause of the disease and other relevant.Result:The prevalence rate for neck pain of orthopedic outpatient in Shanghai Changzheng Hospital is 73.2%.The prevalence rate for men is 71.9%,the prevalence rate for women is 74.6%,slightly higher than male. Prevalence rate of neck pain increased with age,the prevalence rate of 60-70 age group is the highest,reaching 83.0%.Pain duration of 2991 patients is more than three months,and the prevalence of chronic neck pain was 59.8%.The office worker's prevalence rate is 78.30%,higher than manual worker's and standing worker's,and the longer the office working hours per day the higher the prevalence rate is.The prevalence rate of those who sleep high pillow is higher than which of those who sleep Low pillow. Pain mainly concentrated in back of the neck,shoulder and occipital.Most of the pain is not serious,pain in pain-prone parts of Neck,shoulder and occipital is more serious than which in non-pain-prone parts of of medial scapular region,elbow and upper arm.The proportion of persistent pain is small,and 76.9%of patients have non-persistent pain.aching pain and gas pain are the type of pain mainly,Accounted for 71.7%of the total number of patients.The prevalence rate of neck pain is 99.1%in those who has a history of cervical spondylosis.The prevalence rate of neck pain is 92.4%in those who has a history of neck injury.The efficient of the pain whit conservative treatment is 73.3%,the improvement rate of the pain untreated is only 5.9%,Much lower than The efficient of the pain with conservative treatment.The efficient of pain with surgical treatment is 71.4%.