The profile of musculoskeletal pain and its associations with sleep quality and depression during the COVID-19 in Turkey.

BACKGROUND: The current pandemic has affected people's health multidimensionally. This study aims to investigate musculoskeletal pain, sleep quality, depression levels, and their relationships in individuals belonging to different age groups during COVID-19 in Turkey. METHODS: A web-based self-administered survey that consisted of demographic questions, The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and scores of musculoskeletal pain was sent to participants. Pearson correlation analysis was used for determining the statistical relationship between variables. RESULTS: The study includes 1,778 participants. The highest percentage for mild, moderate, and severe pain was in the head (49.8%), back (15.5%), and head (11.5%), respectively. The PSQI-total had shown a weak correlation with pain levels in all body parts. The highest correlation for sleep quality and pain levels was between the PSQI-5 and lower back pain. There was a weak correlation between PSQI- 2 and the BDI score, and a moderate correlation between the PSQI-1, PSQI-5, PSQI- 7, PSQI-total, and BDI score. Pain in all body parts showed a weak correlation with depression level. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that musculoskeletal pain was varied in body parts with different intensities according to age groups in Turkey during the pandemic. The most common pain was in the head, back, and lower back. Headache was found correlated with the parameters of sleep quality. Pain of the head, neck, back, lower back, and shoulder were correlated with sleep latency. Sleep quality was associated with depression and musculoskeletal pain, while musculoskeletal pain was correlated with depression.

Investigation of multidirectional hip range of motion and hip motion asymmetry in individuals with idiopathic scoliosis with different curve patterns.

BACKGROUND: While some studies of the asymmetry of lower limbs in individuals with idiopathic scoliosis exist, there is a need for multidirectional studies conducted on hip joint range of motion and its relationship to curve patterns in idiopathic scoliosis. OBJECTIVES: This study analyzes the hip joint range of multidirectional motions, hip motion asymmetry and investigates them according to curve patterns in individuals with idiopathic scoliosis. METHODS: The sample included 108 females with idiopathic scoliosis. Participants were divided into three groups: double curves, single thoracic curve and single lumbar curve. The range of hip flexion and extension, abduction and adduction, and internal and external rotations were assessed actively and passively with a universal goniometer. The range of motion, left-right asymmetry and the mid-points of the ranges of motion were analyzed. RESULTS: The passive range of the right hip abduction was higher in the thoracic curve group vs. the lumbar curve group. Active and passive ranges of hip extension were higher in the left hip vs. right hip. Active left-right asymmetry was higher than passive left-right asymmetry. CONCLUSION: Individuals with idiopathic scoliosis had different hip abduction motions according to curve pattern that originated from single curves. Left-right hip asymmetry was seen for the hip extension motion. Higher left-right asymmetry for active motion than passive motion in hip abduction may indicate a problem in motion perception in individuals with idiopathic scoliosis.

Body Awareness and its Relation to Quality of Life in Individuals with Idiopathic Scoliosis.

An individual's body awareness depends on the integration of bodily signals from both inside and outside the body. The etiology of idiopathic scoliosis includes a variety of somatosensorial and biomechanical alterations that may affect an individual's body awareness. In this study, we investigated body awareness and its relation to quality of life among individuals with idiopathic scoliosis. We studied 96 participants with scoliosis and 71 healthy control participants. We evaluated both participant groups' body awareness using the Awareness-Body-Chart, and we assessed the quality of life of those with scoliosis using the Scoliosis Research Society-22 (SRS-22) questionnaire. The overall body awareness score and the body awareness values for the face, cervical/lumbar region, back, shoulder, upper arm, lower arm/elbow, hand, genital area, thigh/hip, lower leg, and foot were all found to be significantly lower among the participants with scoliosis than among healthy participants. Among participants with scoliosis, the body awareness value for the back region was positively correlated with pain, body image, mental health, and overall quality of life scores on the SRS-22, whereas the pain score on the Awareness-Body-Chart was negatively correlated with the function/activity, pain, mental health, and overall scores for the SRS-22. This study showed that participants with idiopathic scoliosis have poorer body awareness than control participants without scoliosis, and body awareness among participants with scoliosis was correlated with their self-reports of pain, body image, function, and mental health. These findings highlight the particular importance of body awareness to quality of life for individuals with scoliosis.