Preventive Intervention in Nursery School Teachers

The exercise program was composed of six graded sessions, two per week for three consecutive weeks. Sessions, each of one hour length, were conducted after the working hours in a wide room of the nursery school, gathering together all the teachers from each school. The exercises were selected in order to reinforce lumbar extension and to strengthen the primary stabilizers of the spine (transversus abdominis, oblique abdominal, multifidus, quadratus lumborum and erector spinae muscles)

The brochure showed the correct way to lift loads, and provided ergonomic suggestions to prevent musculoskeletal complaints, according to the Italian legislation