Work Place Adjusted Intelligent Physical Exercise Reducing Musculoskeletal Pain in Shoulder and Neck (VIMS)

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: physical training exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01027390

H-C-2008-103

Details and patient eligibility

About

Musculoskeletal disorders are frequent among office workers especially in the neck/shoulder area.

The hypothesis is, that specific strength training of the neck/shoulder muscles will alleviate the pain.

The two sub-hypotheses are

1. Alleviation of pain is independent of training frequency
2. Alleviation of pain is higher following supervised training vs training with initial instruction only

Full description

Recent studies have shown a positive effect of work site physical exercise intervention, however, there is a lack of evidence regarding: 1) extend of instruction and supervision, and 2) frequency of training session during the wek.

Questionnaires will be send to around 2000 office workers inviting them to participate in work site training for 1 hr per week for 20 weeks. Those accepting the invitation will be randomized into 5 different groups:

1. training 1 hr one time per week supervized 50% of the time
2. training 3 x 20 min per week supervised 50 % of the time
3. training 3 x 20 min per week supervised only initially with careful instructions
4. training 10 x 6 min per week supervised 50 % of the time
5. no training serving as reference control group At termination of the training period there will be a follow-up questionnaire survey

Enrollment: 573 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• office workers
• employed

Exclusion criteria

• physically heavy work
• trauma
• leif threatening disease, e.g. cancer,
• pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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573 participants in 5 patient groups

1 hr training 50% supervision

Experimental group

Description:

1 hr training 50% supervision

Treatment:

Behavioral: physical training exercise

3 x 20 min training 50% supervision

Experimental group

Description:

3 x 20 min training 50% supervision

Treatment:

Behavioral: physical training exercise

3 x 20 min training initial instructions

Experimental group

Description:

3 x 20 min training initial instructions

Treatment:

Behavioral: physical training exercise

10 x 6 min training 50% supervision

Experimental group

Description:

10 x 6 min training 50% supervision

Treatment:

Behavioral: physical training exercise

reference

No Intervention group

Description:

no training