Treatment of the work related musculoskeletal disorders
therapy intewentions
Keywords:
Repetitive Strain Injuries, Work-Related Musculoskeletal Diseases, Therapy, Workers' health, Physical therapyAbstract
Repetitive strain injuries and work-related musculoskeletal disorders are directly related
to occupational activities and work conditions, The symptoms and signs affect muscles, ligaments, tendons, veins, nerves and joints of the neck, back and upper and lower limbs. The importance of these disorders accompanies social and technological developments, whose consequences are the benefits and comfortableness of modem life. in addition to a number of heafth problems that were uncommon in the past. The objective of this work was to identify, through a bibliographic review, physiotherapy íntewentions done both to prevent and treat workers with these disorders in the last decade. Searches in the following databases were done: Lilacs, SciELO, Medline and Pubmed covering the period from 1998 to 2007, The abstracts needed to contain specific data and results. The studies which did not present physiotherapy interventions or whose final result was unclear were excluded, The studies were classified according to a hierarchical pyramid, according to their importance, validity and applicability. A total of 31 abstracts were included. Nine studies represented the major group, related to random clinical trials, demonstraüng the high quality of the methods and practices, besides approaches of multiple outcomes and multidisciplinary works. Twenty-eight studies demonstrated positive results and three demonstrated negative or insignificant results. The review found that a small number of articles were more likely to be published when they presented a higher proportion of positive results obtained when physiotherapy intervention was associated with multidisciplinary work.
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