Survey of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) among people in Kota Setar / Asyraf Ikhmal Zulkifli

Musculoskeletal disorder (MSDs) can affect the body's muscles, joints, tendons and ligament and nerve. Most of MSDs are caused by it or by the working environment. People seem not to care about the importance of ergonomics in their daily life. Furniture manufacture and employee didn't care about the posture in their working tasks. The survey is concentrated to MSDs that related to posture. Its objective are to compare the latest number of MSDs patient in Kota Setar and compare between back pain and neck pain problem. The target location is at Kota Setar, Kedah. The data collected has shown the latest number of MSDs disorder that is 30876 patients and back pain have the highest prevalence of patient that is 188 patients that went for a surgery. The latest number of spinal patientsin 2011 is 2342 patients. Furthermore, ways to prevent MSDs problem has been applied but only several responsible people applied in Kota Setar. In addition, people that responsible in distributing the information about ergonomic is not efficient. So, further research is needed to help in maximize the distributing of information. So, the number of MSDs disorder can be reduced and healthy lifestyle can applied by the people.