Risk factors for low back pain among office workers and its preventive measure / Muhamad Faizal Mohd Zaini

This study was organized to recognize the risk factor of lower back pain (LBP) among
office workers and how to reduce their pain or avoid them from getting chronic low
back pain in the future. There are several factors that contribute to the lower back pain
among office workers such as prolonged sitting, age and unhealthy lifestyle. These
problems should be fixing because it can be a major contribution to the inefficiency in
workplace. The study was conduct in Temerloh district and the sample was from office
worker around Temerloh district which is male (N =15) and female (N =15) .Purpose of
the study is to identify the risk factors of low back pain among office workers and its
preventive measure. The Oswestry Low Back Pain Questionnaire was use to identify
the level of lower back disability among all subject. After that, subject was handling
with pre-test and post-test of sit and reach test to determine the effect of preventive
measure for six week. The result show there is significant different between pre-test and
post-test in flexibility of lower back after six week of preventive measure intervention.
The result for pre-test in sit and reach test is 26.83±4.63 and result for the post-test is
31.58±4.35.