Prevalence of myofascial pain and stress in firefighters practitioners of physical activity / Prevalência de dor miofascial e estresse em bombeiros praticantes de atividade física

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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Aims to assess the correlation between stress and pain myofascial firefighters in the military battalion of Florianopolis. The study was conducted with the participation of 81 firefighters who participated on a voluntary basis to two questionnaires: the questionnaire International Physical Activity (IPAQ-6) and the inventory of symptoms of stress for Adults of Lipp, duly authorized. The first used to monitor whether all had an active lifestyle and the second to measure the level of stress. The pain myofascial was monitored through a physiotherapeutic assessment made by the same appraiser. The results showed that 27 (33.33%) of 81 firefighters from practitioners of physical activity had pain myofascial (dorsal region, the most affected). Of those with pain myofascial, 21 had psychological stress at the stage of resistance in order concomitant with a total of 24 firefighters stressed. The data demonstrated through the test of Chi-Square, there is a strong relationship between the occurrence of pain and stress myofascial (p <α, p <0.05). It was concluded that the prevalence of firefighters stressed the activities is considering running. Physical activity was not effective in 29.62% of the subjects of the study. In addition to detect occurrence of a strong link between the pain myofascial connection with the situation of psychological stress.

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estresse myofascial pain stress firefighters dor miofascial educacao fisica bombeiros

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