HMS Seminar Series

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 24 October 2014

Time:

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Room:

127

UQ Location:

Human Movement Studies Building (St Lucia)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Professor Gisela Sjøgaard from the University of Southern Denmark will be presenting Muscle activity pattern dependent pain development and alleviation.

For decades, muscle activity has been considered to provide health benefits irrespectively of the muscle activity pattern performed. Accordingly, the international recommendations for public health-promoting physical activity do not distinguish between occupational and leisure time physical activity. However, in this body of literature, attention has not been paid to the extensive literature documenting occupational physical activity to impair health. Static sustained muscle contractions for prolonged periods often occur in the neck/shoulder area during occupational tasks and may underlie muscle pain development. In contrast during physical activities at leisure and sport, the motor recruitment patterns are more dynamic and unrelated to muscle pain development. The chronic muscle pain profile related to repetitive monotonous work tasks was related to adverse functional, morphological, hormonal, as well metabolic muscle characteristics.

Of note is that intensive muscle strength training may rehabilitate painful muscles, as proven repeatedly in randomized controlled trials. Exercise training induced adaptation of metabolic and stress-related mRNA and protein responses in the painful muscles, which was in contrast to the responses during repetitive work tasks per se.