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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2011.12.10.4523

The Effects of Stretching Exercise to Musculoskeletal pain in the Community-Dwelling Farmers  

Chong, Bok-Hee (Department of Occupational therapy, Howon University College of Health Welfare)
Kim, Jeong-Ja (Department of Occupational therapy, Howon University College of Health Welfare)
Yang, Chung-Yong (Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, Wonkwang University College of Medicine and Hospital)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.12, no.10, 2011 , pp. 4523-4530 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of stretching management on musculoskeletal joint pain in community indwelling elderly farmers. The study included 28 residents who lived in a rural community. All participants were assigned randomly to either the stretching group (n=13, $59.67{\pm}4.77$ year-old) or the control group (n=15, $61.44{\pm}10.41$ year-old). Respondents were interviewed by means of a structured questionnaire. Pain severity of 6 body areas caused by symptoms of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and pain severity on day time variations were measured by the visual analogue scale on a self-assessed questionnaire. The stretching group was administered stretching therapy (45 min, 2 sets, warming up and cool down, main exercise; total 19 stretching kinds of subset 5 fields) for 12 times for 4 weeks. There were no significant difference between the two groups in general social and pain characteristics. After 4 weeks of stretching, the stretching group showed significant improvements at almost all joint pain scores except arm/elbow, and day time variation scores of pain compared to both baseline scores, and with control group scores. These results showed that stretching therapy is one of the most useful modalities to manage musculoskeletal pain in community-based elderly farmers.
Keywords
Agriculture; Farmers; Musculoskeletal disorders; Stretching exercise; Work;
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