Journal of Yoga & Physical Therapy
Open Access

Abstract

Disability due to Neck Pain

Sumaiyah O and Mirza OB

Neck pain is the complaint which can hurt anyone in the society at least once the life and may cause interruption of day to day activities. The intensity of pain varies from one individual to individual depending upon the cause from simple mechanical neck pain to disco genic pain. The aim of this study was to evaluate and identify the disability due to neck pain at first session of physical therapy. The data has been collected from all the participants on neck disability index to prior to the physical therapy intervention to measure the level of disability due to neck pain. The result yield that the participants took consultation of physical therapist with moderate level of disability. Although the physical therapist can plan a good prognosis at moderate disability, there is still a lot work to do to avoid and treat the patient with neck pain prior to become disabled moderately.