Impact of a Workplace Exercise Program on Low back pain in Hospital Employees

S.M. Farhad Uzz aman

Abstract

                                                                                             

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the effect of three weeks exercise program on short-term sick leave (≤20 days) attributable to back pain. Here to determine whether changes in absenteeism were related to changes in cardiovascular fitness. Subjects were randomly selected to an exercise group (n =34) and a control group (n =33).  In the exercise group, the number of episodes of back pain and the number of sick-leave days due to back pain in the intervention period decreased by over 50%.This was also established in visual analogue scale (VAS). Absenteeism due to back pain increased in the control group.

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