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Filter by:This project involves the delivery of education and training sessions to Seven Oaks General Hospital (SOGH) staff, with the goal of workplace injury prevention. Education will include review of provincial safe patient handling and back injury prevention guidelines and review of core fitness competencies required to comply with injury prevention standards. Training sessions will include exercises to improve core, gluteal and quadricep strength, hip/knee mobility and hamstring flexibility. Training will also be an opportunity to provide feedback on functional movement performance. Outcomes will include questionnaires on: low back pain/dysfunction; movement confidence; work injury rates and participant satisfaction with program. The project will advise stakeholders of the benefits and challenges associated with implementation of a fitness program to support safe patient handling techniques, as outlined in the provincial guidelines for healthcare workers.
The investigators will conduct a controlled clinical trial with U.S. Army soldiers training to become combat medics. The purpose of this study is to determine if a 11-week, high intensity exercise program targeting the low back muscles using specialized equipment will result in a 25% increase in low back muscular strength and endurance compared with a lower intensity general core stability exercise.