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Article: Health: Strength training of neck muscles relieves chronic pain.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- January 7, 2008
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Karachi, January 07 (PPI) : A new study on women with neck pain published in the latest issue of Arthritis Care & Research found that specific strength training exercises led to significant prolonged relief of neck muscle pain, while general fitness training resulted in only a small amount of pain reduction. A team of Danish researchers conducted the randomized controlled trial for which they recruited 94 women from seven workplaces in Copenhagen between September 2005 and March 2006. The work tasks performed by the women consisted of assembly line work and office work, with 79 percent of the participants using a keyboard for more than three-quarters of their working ...
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