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The effect of ergonomics orientation and motor control exercises in patients with work-related upper extremity disorders (WRUED)

Completed
Conditions
Work-related upper extremity disorders (WRUED)
Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning
Registration Number
ISRCTN28200443
Lead Sponsor
Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients, either sex, aged between 20 and 55, with specific or non specific WRUED who complain about pain in the cervical area, shoulders, elbow, forearm, wrist and hands and have difficulty to make work-related as well as daily life movements for at least 6 months.
2. Patients who have agreed to interrupt the traditional physiotherapeutic treatment and to participate in this study for 4 weeks.
3. Patients who have painless movement in at least 60% of the normal range of movement of the glenohumeral joint for flexion and rotation.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients in the acute stage, which is defined by flogistic signs and limitation of the range of movement in the initial angles due to pain.
2. Patients submitted to surgery due to WRUED.
3. Patients with established diagnosis of the following:
3.1. Cervical discopathies
3.2. Neurological diseases
3.3. Fibromyalgia and rheumatic diseases
3.4. Cancer
3.5. Severe psychiatric disease
3.6. Pregnancy
3.7. Hypermobility syndrome

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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