Publications by authors named "Pertti O A Mutanen"
Article Synopsis
- The study tracked adolescents aged 15 to 19 over two years to assess the prevalence of various types of musculoskeletal pain, including neck, shoulder, low back, and limb pain.
- Results showed that a significant portion of participants reported multiple pain locations, with pain becoming more common as the follow-up progressed.
- The findings raise concerns about the meaning of self-reported pain among adolescents, suggesting a need for further research to determine the impact of this pain on their daily lives.
Purpose: We examined the associations between participation in different sports and exercise activities and neck, shoulder, and low back pains in adolescents.
Methods: This population-based study included the members of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986, who, at the age of 15 to 16 yr, completed a questionnaire including items about their musculoskeletal pains and participation in various sport and exercise activities (N = 6945). Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate how musculoskeletal pains are associated a) with participation in a certain type of sport or exercise activity and b) with the clusters formed by latent class analysis (LCA) according to the adolescents' profiles of participation in different sport and exercise activities.