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

Table 3.

Evolution of mean pain values during the study in the three experimental groups

  No EVA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Group PE + massage M 7,43 7,36 6,90 6,31 5,75 4,81 4,62 4,27 3,81 3,11 3,08 3,03

Standard deviation 1,65 1,12 0,94 1,10 1,27 0,87 0,78 0,90 0,77 0,75 0,85 0,71

PE group only M 7,69 7,42 7,03 6,67 6,14 5,98 5,51 5,12 4,97 4,72 4,51 4,07

Standard  deviation 1,43 0,85 0,77 1,09 1,20 0,77 0,81 0,91 1,05 1,51 0,91 0,63

A group of witnesses M 7,26 - - - - - - - - -   7,31

Standard deviation 1,17 - - - - - - - - - - 1,22