title: Musculoskeletal alterations associated factors physical and environmental in dental students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the musculoskeletal disorders and association with physical and environmental in students of Dentistry.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross sectional study. Simple random sampling was conducted obtaining a proportional sample of 182 students per semester. Collecting information from physical and environmental exposures related to different clinical practice and this was assessed by a structured survey questionnaire type. The valuation muscle was performed by visual analysis with Scan-test. To assess factors related to working position, the instrument was used RULA. For the analysis of the association were used odds ratios with confidence intervals of 95%. For the multivariate analysis using logistic regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  58.2% of students had pain tenderness in upper trapezius and 45.6% in area cervical. Lateral movements in the cervical found pain in 35.7%, with the bending cervical 35.1% related to all these factors own dental practice and not to other factors external.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The onset of muscle pain in this population is influenced by multiple variables, most of them, related to dental practice of students to interact with each other can trigger symptoms at neck and back.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia.
authors.forename: Juntzo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fals Martínez
authors.forename: Farith
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: González Martínez
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Orozco Páez
authors.forename: Sandra Patricia
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Correal Castillo
authors.forename: Cindy Vanessa
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Pernett Gómez
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D011187:Posture; D012307:Risk Factors; D013335:Students, Dental