Implementation of ‘School Back’ by the ‘Core’ technique in a factory of geotextiles to prevent back pain

Introduction: This article aims to show an alternative intervention for the prevention and control of back pain to the people of a production plant of geotextiles for the construction exposed to handling and awkward postures through the implementation of the Back School using the CORE technique. This technique being understood as trainer of the stability musculature of the spine; whose benefit is proportionate the muscular complex of the back, stability and avoid osteomuscular lesions and improved posture. Objective: To present the results about the implementation of the back school by the CORE technique for prevention of back pain in a population of forty-eight male collaborators. Materials and methods: The back school began with talks of awareness by the occupational health physician explaining the objectives and benefits of it to all participants. Once this activity was done, was continued to evaluate all plant employees to establish health status through the PAR-Q questionnaire, who were surveyed for the perception of pain using visual analog scale (VAS) and stability was determined column through the CORE assessment, to determine the training plan. Then, were made every six months the revaluations and implementation of a survey of assistant public perception to identify the impact of the implementation of the school back on the two variables referred (pain perception and stability of column). Results: The pain perception according VAS increased in the number of workers asymptomatic in 12% and based in the satisfaction survey 94% of population reported that with the development of this technique decrease the muscle fatigue in lumbar level; and 96% of population reported an improvement in the performance of their work activities. Discussion: Posterior to the analysis of all results, it is interpreted that back schools practice through CORE technique, contributes to the prevention and / or control of symptoms at the lumbar level in population of productive sector exposed to risks derived from the physical load, provided that ensure its continuously development and supervised for a competent professional.

Normative reference values for the 20-meter shuttlerun test in a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia: The FUPRECOL Study

Our aim was to determine the normative reference values of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and to establish the proportion of subjects with low CRF suggestive of future cardio-metabolic risk.

Comparación de dos técnicas anestésicas con la producción de metabolitos de estrés en lactantes llevados a cirugía cardiaca

A través del tiempo las técnicas anestésicas basadas en opioides y especialmente en fentanyl han sido las más frecuentemente utilizadas en cirugía cardiaca pediátrica con circulación extracorpórea (CEC). La población pediátrica y en especial los niños menores de 10 kilos de peso tienen mayor susceptibilidad a las complicaciones postoperatorias, una de las razones para esta especial susceptibilidad es la respuesta al estrés y la reacción inflamatoria sistémica que desencadena la CEC en estos pacientes. La utilización de nuevos opioides (Remifentanil) más potentes, puede tener un impacto importante en la disminución del estrés metabólico desencadenado por la cirugía cardiaca. Mediante un estudio de cohortes realizado con los pacientes menores de 10 kilogramos de peso llevados a cirugía cardiaca con CEC se expusieron a dos diferentes técnicas anestésicas: la técnica “tradicional” basada en Fentanyl y otra basada en Remifentanil, se midieron las covariables que pudieran provocar altos niveles de estrés metabólico y se tomaron niveles basales y postoperatorios de tres metabolitos relacionados con el estrés (Lactato, Glucosa y Cortisol). Los resultados del estudio muestran grupos comparables en las mediciones basales de metabolitos de estrés y características clínicas, además de una relación, estadísticamente significativa, entre una menor producción de glucosa durante la CEC en los pacientes que son anestesiados con infusiones de remifentanil, los demás metabolitos no tuvieron relación con la técnica anestésica. Estos resultados abren caminos para la realización de estudios clínicos con el objetivo de establecer terapéuticas que permitan la disminución de la morbi-mortalidad asociada a cirugía cardiaca.

The dynamics of local hiv-1 epidemics: the colombian and belgian cohorts

We aimed to characterize the HIV-1 epidemic of the Belgian and Colombian cohorts using an integrated approach that includes socio-demographic information, clinical data, and viral sequences, analyzed with statistical and phylogenetic approaches.