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Individual and Group Exercise Program for Industrial Workers With CANS: Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02188030 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2014-07-11

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Summary

This study is double-blinded RCT, whose aim is to assess if an individual exercise program is more effective to reduce complaints in neck, shoulders and arms that an group exercise program, in industrial workers.

The participants will be randomly allocated to receive 12 treatment sessions of individual exercise training (IET) or in group exercise training (GET). Sessions will last 30 minutes and will be held twice a week for 12 weeks. Participants will also be encouraged to continue the use of medicines and other health care.

Conditions

  • Musculoskeletal Disorder of the Neck

Interventions

OTHER

Group Exercise Program

The participants allocated into the GET Group will receive a general exercise training realized in group of workers. Each training session started with a five minute swarm-up by slowly moving the neck, upper back, shoulder, arms and hands through pain-free range of motion; followed by 30 minutes of stretching and strengthening exercises for neck, upper back, shoulder, arms and hands, performed in the standing posture, sitting or lying. For resistance exercise, will be adopted 3 sets of 10 repetitions with a load of 80% of 1 repetitions maximum. Dumbbells and elastic bands and will be used as accessories to perform the resistance exercises.

OTHER

Individual Exercise Program

The participants allocated into the IET Group will receive a individual and specific strength training with seven different exercises, based in training programme describe by Andersen et al.3 and Sundstrup et al4. During the intervention period, the training intensity were progressively increased according to the principle of periodization and progressive overload5. Dumbbells and elastic bands and will be used as accessories to perform the resistance exercises. Experienced instructors supervised every other training session.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rosimeire Simprini Padula

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rosimeire Padula, Doctor · Universidade Cidade de São Paulo (UNICID)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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