Labor gymnastics proposal based on the Pilates Method: an integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Aureni Cicera de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Abreu, Andréa Pinheiro dos Santos, Saraty, Salma Brito, Monte, Lindinalva Brasil, Trindade, Creusa Barbosa dos Santos, Santos, Valéria Regina Cavalcante dos, Neves, Carla Manuela Almeida das, Nunes, Silvia Ferreira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/24703
• topic: Gimnasia laboral; Pilates; Dolor crónico; Calidad de vida en el trabajo; Absentismo.; Ginástica laboral; Pilates; Dores crônicas; Qualidade de vida no trabalho; Absenteísmo.; Labor gymnastics; Pilates; Chronic pain; Quality of life at work; Absenteeism.

Introduction: The search for quality of life at work has been arousing the interest of researchers. The labor gymnastics has been widely used as a management strategy in the worker's health, both in private companies and in public institutions; in view of a growing trend on the use of the Pilates method in anti-stress activities at work motivated this study. Objective: In order to investigate in the literature if interventions with labor gymnastics based on the Pilates method can provide improvements in the levels of occupational pain and/or stress, enabling a reduction in the rates of absenteeism from work. Methods: To this end, a search was conducted in the BVS, Pubmed, and Scielo databases for original articles dated 2011-2020, relating the main results on quality of life, labor gymnastics, use of the Pilates method, and reduction of absenteeism rates at work, following the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: At the end of the study it was observed that the Pilates method has been used as a therapeutic resource associated with labor gymnastics to reduce chronic pain, occupational stress and reduce absenteeism at work.