Press Release: Office initiative reduces headaches, neck & shoulder pain over 40%

Daily diaries and relaxation exercises reduced workplace upper body pain.

Press release:

Staff also report using 51 percent fewer painkillers

Office staff who took part in an 8-month workplace initiative reported that headaches and neck and shoulder pain fell by more than 40% and their use of painkillers halved, according to research published in the May issue of Cephalalgia.

They also reported that pain levels were less severe at the end of the study than at the start.

Italian researchers compared 169 staff in Turin’s registry and tax offices with 175 colleagues who hadn’t taken part in the educational and physical program. Using daily diaries completed by both groups, they compared the baseline results for months one and two of the study with months seven and eight to see if there had been any changes. The study group started following the program in month three.

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