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- Volume 1, Issue 1 2026
By Neelam Zehra, Reeta
Keywords: Allied health professionals, Foot pain, Prevalence, Prolonged Standing, Teachers
The foot plays an important role in a person's quality of life as the foot enhances the overall well-being. During prolonged standing, feet are continuously exposed to strain in individuals, especially in teachers, due to heavy workload and longer standing durations. The anatomy and function of the foot have great significance in foot health. To find out the prevalence of foot pain among teachers of allied health professions due to prolonged standing in different universities of Karachi, an observational cross-sectional study was conducted among teachers of Allied Health Professions with 191 sample size which was calculated through OpenEPI. The software used for data analysis was IBM SPSS, licensed version 21. Our study incorporated 191 teachers from different universities in Karachi. Among these 191 subjects 119 participants were female and 72 participants were male (Table no.4). The ages of participants ranged from 25-65 years more precisely 45% of (25-35), 38.2% of (36-45), 13.6% of (46-55) and 3.1% of (56-65) years of age. Out of 191 participants, 103 reported that they have foot pain with the intensity of mild (43.7%), moderate (39.8%), and severe (16.5%), respectively. The overall result showed that the prevalence of foot pain was high in teachers, mostly having mild to moderate pain. A few participants reported severe pain
Submission Date: 28 Apr, 2025 Reviews Completed: 22 Sep, 2025Acceptance Date: 22 Nov, 2025 Publication Date: 1 Jan, 2026