Status:
UNKNOWN
Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders
Lead Sponsor:
Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail
Conditions:
Back Pain
Neck Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-58 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Sickness absenteeism caused by MSDs is a persistent and expensive health challenge in all industrial countries including Switzerland. Despite much progress as to the cause and prevention of MSDs, they...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Employees on sick leave because of non-specific back and/or neck/shoulder pain
- actual unable to work and continuous or cumulative (totalized) work incapa- city in the past 6 monts
- ≥ 20 working days 100% absence from work or
- ≥ 40 working days 80 to 99% absence from work or
- ≥ 60 working days 50 to 79% absence from work and
- not older than 58 level of employment ≥ 50%
- no longer than 6 monts absencer from work (100% unable to work)
Exclusion
- Specific diagnosis such as infection, neoplasm, metastasis osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fracture and inflammatory process or other conditions for which valid diagnoses had been demonstrated either in the anamnesis, records or the clinical examination
- Postoperative health condition with prohibited physical load
- Major co-morbidity which may determine return to work in a clearly stronger way then the MSD itself such as a major depression, psychosis, heavy drug or alcohol disease or instable cardiac or pulmonary disease
- Predominant specific shoulder pathology in "neck-shoulder pain"
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2006
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
February 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
120 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00369135
Start Date
March 1 2006
End Date
February 1 2009
Last Update
November 21 2008
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Institut universitaire romand de Santè au Travail
Lausanne, Switzerland