The effect of ergonomics orientation and motor control exercises in patients with work-related upper extremity disorders (WRUED)

ISRCTN	ISRCTN28200443
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN28200443
Secondary identifying numbers	N/A

Submission date: 17/04/2010
Registration date: 29/04/2010
Last edited: 04/10/2011

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning

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Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

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Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Ms Taís Di Mambro
Scientific

Rua José Esteves de Oliveira 75/303
Juiz de Fora - Minas gerais
36021-710
Brazil

Phone	+55 (0)32 32367942
Email	taisrdm@gmail.com

Study information

Study design	Single centre randomised active controlled parallel group trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Hospital
Study type	Treatment
Participant information sheet	Not available in web format, please use contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Scientific title	Randomised and controlled study of the effect of ergonomics orientation and motor control exercises in patients with WRUED
Study objectives	1. The treatment with motor control exercises and ergonomics orientation is better than the treatment with ergonomics orientation only. 2. The treatment with motor control exercises relieves the pain and improves the Work Ability Index (WAI) in patients with WRUED.
Ethics approval(s)	The Committee of Ethics in Research in Human Beings of Propesq (UFJF) approve on the 27th of July 2009 (ref 130/2009)
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Work-related upper extremity disorders (WRUED)
Intervention	A group will receive ergonomics orientation and another will receive ergonomics orientation and motor control training for movement re-education. Both groups will be followed-up for 4 weeks and will be reassessed after 2 weeks as well as on the last day of follow-up so as to verify the effects of the ergonomics orientation an of the ergonomics orientation plus the motor control training in terms of pain, movements and work ability. The ergonomics orientation and motor control training group will do personalised therapeutic exercises aiming to increase strength, muscular length and motor control, according to the diagnosis of imperfect movements.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	Pain, assessed through the Visual Analogue Pain Scale (VAS)
Secondary outcome measures	Work Ability Index validated in Brazil
Overall study start date	20/08/2010
Completion date	20/04/2011

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	60
Key inclusion criteria	1. Patients, either sex, aged between 20 and 55, with specific or non specific WRUED who complain about pain in the cervical area, shoulders, elbow, forearm, wrist and hands and have difficulty to make work-related as well as daily life movements for at least 6 months. 2. Patients who have agreed to interrupt the traditional physiotherapeutic treatment and to participate in this study for 4 weeks. 3. Patients who have painless movement in at least 60% of the normal range of movement of the glenohumeral joint for flexion and rotation.
Key exclusion criteria	1. Patients in the acute stage, which is defined by flogistic signs and limitation of the range of movement in the initial angles due to pain. 2. Patients submitted to surgery due to WRUED. 3. Patients with established diagnosis of the following: 3.1. Cervical discopathies 3.2. Neurological diseases 3.3. Fibromyalgia and rheumatic diseases 3.4. Cancer 3.5. Severe psychiatric disease 3.6. Pregnancy 3.7. Hypermobility syndrome
Date of first enrolment	20/08/2010
Date of final enrolment	20/04/2011

Locations

Countries of recruitment

Brazil

Study participating centre

Rua José Esteves de Oliveira 75/303

Juiz de Fora - Minas gerais
36021-710
Brazil

Sponsor information

Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
University/education

c/o Taís Resende Di Mambro
Rua José Esteves de Oliveira 75/303
Juiz de Fora - Minas gerais
36021-710
Brazil

Phone	+55 (0)32 32367942
Email	taisrdm@gmail.com
Website	http://www.ufjf.br
"ROR"	https://ror.org/04yqw9c44

Funders

Funder type

University/education

Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)

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Results and Publications

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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
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