Efeito da ginástica laboral preparatória nas dores osteomusculares de funcionários de uma usina de cana-de-açúcar da cidade de Rio Largo-AL

Abstract

Objective: this research aims to evaluate the Effects of Preparatory Labor Gymnastics on the Muscle Pain of Employees of a Sugar Cane Plant in the city of Rio Largo-AL. Method: the research is constituted in an experimental design, with quantitative and comparative analysis of the data, carried out with 24 employees, being 12 destined to the control group and 12 to the trained group. The instruments adopted for data collection were anamnesis form to obtain identification data, and the diagram of painful areas was adapted (CORLETT; MANENICA, 1980), to classify the intensity of pain in little, moderate, much and extreme. The research took place in three stages. The first stage (pre-test) consisted of applying the anamnesis form and the diagram of painful areas for both groups; the second stage formed by the application of Labor Gymnastics activity twice a week, lasting 15 minutes each, in a period of 10 weeks for the trained group. The third stage (post-test) occurred with the reapplication of the diagram for the trained and control groups. Results: In the pre-test, the discomfort \ muscle pain in the segments were, spine 83%, upper limbs 66% and lower limbs 50% for the trained group, and for the group control were spine 75%, upper limbs 75% and lower limbs 41%. In relation to the intensity of pain, following the spine, there was an increase in the percentage of little pain (from 60% to 80%), while the other classifications showed a reduction. In upper limbs there was an increase in the intensity of little discomfort (from 25% to 40%); increase in the classification of moderate discomfort (from 50% to 60%) and extinction in other intensities. For lower limbs there was an increase in the intensity of little discomfort from 33% to 83%, with a decrease in the classification of moderate discomfort and extinction of the classification of extreme discomfort. Conclusion: The results showed that, in support of other studies, Gymnastics at Work is able to reduce the incidence of discomfort \ musculoskeletal pain in the work environment, as well as decrease or extinguish the highest perceptual intensities of discomfort \ musculoskeletal pain.