It was not just teaching: osteomuscular changes in teachers in the Home Office education system
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https://doi.org/10.22421/1517-7130/es.2023v24.e903Keywords:
Pandemic, Teachers, Musculoeskeletal PainAbstract
Covid-19 led to changes in face-to-face education, replaced by remote teaching, leading teachers
to health consequences. The pandemic may have generated new musculoskeletal changes in
teachers or intensified pre-existing ones. The objective was to evaluate the time during which
professors worked remotely, analyzing the incidence of musculoskeletal alterations. Data
collection took place in 2021 using Google forms. There were 92 responses, of those teaching
between one and two years (76.1%), with more than 60% staying for more than six hours in front
of 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.
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