Incidencia de las alteraciones musculoesqueléticas en tren superior y columna vertebral en el personal de la empresa bioalimentar

Abstract

The present investigation had as a question to know the musculoskeletal alterations in the upper body and in the spinal column of the personnel that works within the Bioalimentar company. The evaluation was carried out on a total of 67 participants, of whom 41 were male and 26 female. For the evaluation, we proceeded to fill out a clinical history model that consists of the anamnesis, a physical evaluation, manual tests that lead to a physiotherapeutic diagnosis; point from which and according to the place of origin of the discomfort, different questionnaires (DASH, NDI, OSWESTRY) were applied, which are used worldwide and provide great reliability and validity to be applied within the evaluation. The study is descriptive in nature since the data was collected at the workers' workplace, epidemiological in nature as it seeks the incidence of pathologies, among which we have: Low back pain, Quervain's tendonitis and carpal tunnel tendinitis, Cervicalgia and Tendinitis of the rotator cuff. Finally, a survey was carried out to find the risk factors that influence the development of discomfort, with mechanical and ergonomic factors being predominant.