Implementación de ‘Escuela de espalda’ mediante la técnica de ‘Core’ en una fábrica de geotextiles para la prevención del dolor lumbar

• Main Authors: Claudia Lucia Vélez, Mónica Perdomo, Tulita Miranda
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Colegio Mayor Nuestra Señora del Rosario 2011-04-01
• Series: Revista Ciencias de la Salud
• Subjects: CORE; low back pain; back schools.
• Online Access: http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/revsalud/article/view/1549/1380

Introduction: This article aims to show an alternative intervention for the prevention and control of back pain to the people of a production plant of geotextiles for the construction exposed to handling and awkward postures through the implementation of the Back School using the CORE technique. This technique being understood astrainer of the stability musculature of the spine; whose benefitis proportionate the muscular complex of the back, stability andavoid osteomuscular lesions and improved posture. Objective: To present the results about the implementation of the back school by the CORE technique for prevention of back pain in a population offorty-eight male collaborators. Materials and methods: The backschool began with talks of awareness by the occupational health physician explaining the objectives and benefits of it to allparticipants. Once this activity was done, was continued to evaluateall plant employees to establish health status through the PAR-Qquestionnaire, who were surveyed for the perception of pain usingvisual analog scale (VAS) and stability was determined column throughthe CORE assessment, to determine the training plan. Then, were made every six months the revaluations and implementation of a survey of assistant public perception to identify the impact of the implementation of the school back on the two variables referred (pain perception and stability of column). Results: The pain perceptionaccording VAS increased in the number of workers asymptomatic in 12% and based in the satisfaction survey 94% of population reported thatwith the development of this technique decrease the muscle fatiguein lumbar level; and 96% of population reported an improvement in theperformance of their work activities. Discussion: Posterior to theanalysis of all results, it is interpreted that back schoolspractice through CORE technique, contributes to the prevention and /or control of symptoms at the lumbar level in population of productive sector exposed to risks derived from the physical loadprovided that ensure its continuously development and supervised for a competent professional.