Abstract
IntroductionMusculoskeletal and mental disorders are relevant in the workers’ disease process, and ergonomic interventions that include guidance and physical exercise consist of strategies of health promotion. Integrative and complementary practices are presented as a possibility of promoting comprehensive care and yoga consists of a therapeutic alternative.ObjectiveTo evaluate the effects of an intervention including educational measures and hatha yoga in musculoskeletal pain, disability, and stress in professionals of a university hospital.MethodsWe selected 125 professionals with musculoskeletal symptoms of intensity ≥ 1 who did not practice yoga and randomly assigned them to intervention (n = 63) and control (n = 62) groups, requesting answers to the following questionnaires: initial characterization, the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire and a numeric scale, the Pain Disability Questionnaire, and the Perceived Stress Scale. The intervention group went through a 12-week program with educational measures and hatha yoga. At the end of the study period, both groups answered to the questionnaires once again. We compared data before and after the intervention and between groups.ResultsBoth groups presented improvements after 12 weeks, but the difference between mean results obtained in the first and second data collections revealed that the levels of pain, disability, and stress decreased more strongly in the intervention group than in the control group. Considering that the intervention group began the program in worse clinical conditions, the program led to a reduction in the difference between groups, but this was not enough for the intervention group to reach better results than the control.ConclusionsThe intervention promoted improvements in the intensity of pain, disability, and stress among the participants of the intervention group. Similar programs could be explored in the promotion of occupational health.
Highlights
The current world of labor presents demands that often exceed the natural limits of the workers’ skills and capacities, leading to physical, psychological, and social dysfunctions that affect health, social relations, and productivity
This study reported an approach within the concept of health education and yoga that contributed to the construction of care modes founded in an individualized and comprehensive perspective
Considering the possibilities emerging from the implemented program, we highlight that not all variables showed statistically significant differences, our findings suggest that the most evident effects of the yoga sessions could continue contributing with behavioral changes and their effects on the health and wellbeing of participants in the long term
Summary
The current world of labor presents demands that often exceed the natural limits of the workers’ skills and capacities, leading to physical, psychological, and social dysfunctions that affect health, social relations, and productivity. A significant and increasing part of the global population, frequently underestimated by health care systems and services, turns to unconventional practices as a basis or complementary aspect of strategies for promoting health and preventing or treating mainly chronic diseases.[10,11,12] This reveals that the western scientific health care model is not the only pattern of care and some therapeutic systems are guided by other health paradigms.[13] Therapies based on bioenergetics stimulate self-care, contribute in modulating the immune response, and induce lifestyle changes, providing alternatives to the limits of the hegemonic medical model.[10]
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