How Does Implementing a GetUp Assist Device in Addition to a Daily Low-intensity Functional or Traditional Training Program Affect Norwegian Female Office Workers' Physical Health After 12 Weeks?

Aalborg University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck, Shoulder and Arm Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Experimental, comparator and control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06463041

438957

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to quantify the effect of daily transition routines between sitting and standing behaviour with an additional daily low-intensity traditional or functional training program on the physical health of sedentary Norwegian female workers after 12 weeks of implementation into their working environment.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Females are included in this study due to the approximately twice-high prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
• No experience with office fit training or participation in an ongoing similar training intervention is allowed.
• Working more than 6 hours a day at a computer workstation
• Physical inactivity (less than two sessions or bouts of exercise totalling 30 minutes/week).
• Musculoskeletal complaints are accepted as long as the pain is not a restricting factor. when performing the testing and training intervention exercises.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants not able to perform the testing battery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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58 participants in 3 patient groups

Functional training group

Experimental group

Description:

Functional training group that will perform a short, low-intensity, 10-minute hole-body exercise program per day before the lunch break, in addition to following the getup assistance during the working day.

Treatment:

Other: Experimental, comparator and control

Traditional training group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Traditional training group that will perform a short, low-intensity, 10-minute hole-body exercise program per day before the lunch break, in addition to following the getup assistance during the working day.

Treatment:

Other: Experimental, comparator and control

Negative control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group. A group that is not treated.