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Preventive Intervention in Nursery School Teachers

NCT00783562 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 71

Last updated 2008-10-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Childcare in nursery schools has been shown to be associated with an elevated prevalence of neck, shoulder, arm and low back disorders. The current evidence suggests that exercises seem to be the only effective preventive intervention. Thus the purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of an extension-oriented exercise program in preventing low back/neck pain and functional disability in nursery school teachers. In addition, the investigators also sought to identify the occurrence of musculoskeletal complaints in this category of workers.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain
  • Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Extension-oriented exercise program

The exercise program was composed of six graded sessions, two per week for three consecutive weeks. Sessions, each of one hour length, were conducted after the working hours in a wide room of the nursery school, gathering together all the teachers from each school. The exercises were selected in order to reinforce lumbar extension and to strengthen the primary stabilizers of the spine (transversus abdominis, oblique abdominal, multifidus, quadratus lumborum and erector spinae muscles)

OTHER

Informative Brochure

The brochure showed the correct way to lift loads, and provided ergonomic suggestions to prevent musculoskeletal complaints, according to the Italian legislation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bologna

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Paolo Pillastrini, MSc · University of Bologna

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-10-31
Primary Completion
2007-12-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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