Prolonged Sitting Posture: Massage and Physical Exercise Program as Effective Therapy in 45 Sedentary Officers using Their Vehicles Full Time

Table 1.

Characteristics of the study subjects

  Experimental group II Experimental group I A group of witnesses

Age (average in years) 43,54 ± 1,32 43,27 ± 1,00 44,38 ± 1,26

Weight (average in Kg) 79,85 ± 1,43 82,45 ± 1,08  78,5 ± 1,14

Size (average in centimeter) 185 ± 5,5 188 ± 4,60  183 ± 5,22

Body mass index (BMI) (kg / m2) 23,33 23,32 23,44

Feeling of low back pain due to prolonged sitting  100%  100 %  100 %

Professional activities
  • Directors of public and private services
  • Heads of public and private services
  • Administrative staff of the services
  • Banking and microfinance and lawyers
  • Agents of marriage and borough
  • Administrative secretaries