Abstract:
Purpose : The purpose of the study was to explore the pain experiences of upper extremity
musculoskeletal pain during rehabilitation of spinal cord injury patient. Objectives: To find
out the pain experience of patients with upper extremity musculoskeletal pain during
rehabilitation of spinal cord injury. Methodology: A cross sectional research design was
carried out in this study, purposive sampling method was used to collect data and data was
collected by face to face interview from 60 subjects. This study was chosen to conduct this
study among 60 participants who were selected according to inclusion criteria. To find out
upper extremity musculoskeletal pain during rehabilitation experience the spinal cord
injury pain a standard questionnaire was used. Results: Out of 60 participants with SCI
were experiences of shoulder pain 45%(n=31),13.3%(n=8) elbow pain, wrist pain
23.3(n=14), shoulder to elbow pain 1.7%(n= 1), shoulder to wrist pain 3%(n= 3), elbow to
wrist pain 0% and below wrist pain 3.3% (n=2) during rehabilitation and the association of
different parameters result are not significance. Conclusion: The percentage of finding
result was approximate to other study of musculoskeletal pain during rehabilitation SCI
patients and the correlation between pain intensity and other association of different
parameters are not significance, the study results may also useful for the prevention of
reducing the pain percentage.
Key words: pain; upper extremity; spinal cord injury; rehabilitation. v
Description:
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.