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Register: REBEC
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  RBR-8jjhds
Date of registration: 09/01/2012
Primary sponsor: Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brazil
Public title: Workplace physical exercise program for painful symptoms control in nursing personnel.
Scientific title: Exercise program for musculoskeletal symptoms prevention in nursing personnel of Hospital Santa Casa de Misericórdia of São Carlos.
Date of first enrolment: 20/03/2010
Target sample size: 348
Recruitment status: recruitment completed
URL:  http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/rg/RBR-8jjhds/
Study type: 
Study design:  clinical trial, double arm, non randomized, uni blind.  
Countries of recruitment
Brazil
Contacts
Name: Roberta de Fa´tima  Moreira
Address:  Rua Kasato Maru, 30 03283008 São Paulo Brazil
Telephone: 551681211938
Email: roberta.carreira@gmail.com
Affiliation:  CNPq
Name: Roberta de Fa´tima  Moreira
Address:  Rua Kasato Maru, 30 03283008 São Paulo Brazil
Telephone: 551681211938
Email: roberta.carreira@gmail.com
Affiliation:  CNPq
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: active workers of nursing staff regularly registered at hospital Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Carlos, older than 18 years old of both gender.
Exclusion criteria: pregancy, presence of cardiovascular disease or methabolic disease, previous cardiac surgery, heart failure, hipertension, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, progressiva root neurologic alterations, spine inflamatory diseases, previous spine surgery and other chronic diseases which could contribute for musculoskeletal pain symptoms as fibromyalgia, kidney or gynecological alterations

Age minimum: 18Y
Age maximum: 0
Gender: -
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Musculoskeletal pain among active nursing workers.
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Intervention(s)
The intervention group took part in a workplace physical exercise program for musculoskeletal pain control. The exercise program was based on strenghtening and stretching exercises. The session were applied twice a week, lasting 30 minutes each session, for a period of 12 weeks. The control group did not receive any kind of intervention during the first period. At the end of 12 weeks and examintation of both groups, the control group started its participation on the exercise sessions.
Primary Outcome(s)
Pain symptoms evaluated through physical examination, pain pressure threshold (algometry) and Nordic Questionaire os musculoskeletal pain.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Back and abdominal wall muscle strengh measured by digital dinamometer.
Hamstring flexibility measured through seat and reach test.
Secondary ID(s)
CAAE1080.0.000.135-10
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico CNPq - Brazil
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brazil
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