Effect of Exercise and Ergonomic Interventions on Musculoskeletal Pain and Work Related Risks in Tailors

Background: Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most common chronic disorders and can develop from repetitive micro-traumas, which occurs often from one’s occupation. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) cost the United States billions of dollars annually. Many traditional therapeutic interventions like manual therapy, electrical stimulation and hot and cold packs, are being utilized to treat WMSD however there is minimal evidence supporting the use of these interventions to treat WMSD. Therefore, exercise and ergonomic interventions has been proposed as a conservative, non-invasive, and cost effective intervention to treat WMSD. Methods: For this study selected 60 sewing machine operator with Musculoskeletal pain ( 20 men, 20 women experimental group and 10 men , 10 women for control group with 13.3, 167.4, 69.7, 35.09 for work experience, height, weight and age respectively and they received exercise and ergonomic intervention for 3 sessions per week for 8 weeks. Results: Our results indicate that the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain among tailors most of body is high and exercise and ergonomic intervention are effective on decrease of pain (p 0.05).