A Survey of Neck Pain among Dentists of the Lebanese Community

Table 5

Correlation between muscle pain and demographic characteristics.

		Muscular pain due to dental practice		value
		No	Yes
Gender	Male	28	173	0.614
		62.2%	58.2%
	Female	17	124
		37.8%	41.8%
Age	25–35 years	33	142	0.013
		73.3%	47.8%
	36–45 years	6	98
		13.3%	33.0%
	46–56 years	3	33
		6.7%	11.1%
	>56 years	3	24
		6.7%	8.1%
Hours of work per week	15–30 hours/week	11	101	0.168
		24.4%	34.0%
	31–40 hours/week	24	158
		53.3%	53.2%
	41–50 hours/week	10	38
		22.2%	12.8%
History of spine disease	Congenital spinal disease	0	4	0.654
		0.0%	1.3%
	Spine surgery	2	9
		4.4%	3.0%
	None	43	284
		95.6%	95.6%

Chi-square test.