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