It was not just teaching: osteomuscular changes in teachers in the Home Office education system

• Autor(a) principal: Geller, Iago Vinicios
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ilkiu, Giovana Simas Melo, Amarantes, Willian Amauri, Ruski, Marcos Vinicius, Gonzales, Daniel Alberto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Espaço para a Saúde (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://espacoparasaude.fpp.edu.br/index.php/espacosaude/article/view/903
• topic: Pandemia; Professores; Dor Musculoesquelética; Pandemic; Teachers; Musculoeskeletal Pain

Covid-19 led to changes in face-to-face education, replaced by remote teaching, leading teachersto health consequences. The pandemic may have generated new musculoskeletal changes inteachers or intensified pre-existing ones. The objective was to evaluate the time during whichprofessors worked remotely, analyzing the incidence of musculoskeletal alterations. Datacollection took place in 2021 using Google forms. There were 92 responses, of those teachingbetween one and two years (76.1%), with more than 60% staying for more than six hours in frontof the computer screen, 96.7% of professors have some type of musculoskeletal pain, and 33.7%claim that the pain started after they started working in front of the computer. The main regions with pain are the cervical area, shoulders, and lumbar area. Inadequate posture combined with non-ergonomic furniture affect postural muscles, leading to fatigue and pain. The change in the way of working led to a biopsychosocial imbalance and shall be further investigated.