การประเมินความเสี่ยงทางอาชีวอนามัยโดยเมตริกความเสี่ยงต่อสุขภาพและผลการยืดเหยียดกล้ามเนื้อต่อการปวดเมื่อยกล้ามเนื้อส่วนล่างของผู้ประกอบอาชีพทอผ้ามือ อำเภอเสลภูมิ จังหวัดร้อยเอ็ด

บทคัดย่อ

This study aimed to assess the occupational health risks matrix and the effect of stretching on lower muscle pain among handmade weaving occupations, Selaphum district, Roi-Et province. There were studied general data and health risk factors in 67 handmade weavers by using interviews with personal characteristics, working environmental, symptom level and frequency of muscle pain assessing form, and occupational health risk level assessed by risk matrix. The stretching muscles program was designed as quasi-experimental study among 37 volunteers. All samples were analyzed STATA-10 program. The results showed that 41 workers (61.19%) had muscle pain on the unacceptable level in the hip area, increasing age and mass body index was associated with hip muscle aching scoring, statistically significant (p-value <0.05). As a result of the muscles stretching program, most of the lower muscle pain symptoms and frequency aching scoring were decreased to acceptable levels. There were decreased mean occupational health risk scoring by risk matrix from 6.81 (± 4.95) to 3.08 (± 2.61) on hip muscle, and 6.97 (± 5.20) to 2.84 (± 2.76) on knees and calves’ muscle, statistically significant (p-value <0.001). Therefore, stretching the muscles can help reduce pain in work-related lower muscles.