Rehabilitation courses
The occupationally oriented rehabilitation courses for
female farmers were developed and funded by the
Social Insurance Institution in Finland. The main goals
of the rehabilitation were to increase the subjects’
physical and psychological capacity and to teach the
subjects work techniques that optimize the load on the
musculoskeletal system. The courses included training
of ergonomically ‘good’ work techniques in a classroom
and in actual work situations, physical activities, and
learning of the structure and strain responses of the
musculoskeletal system. The new work techniques
were taught by a physiotherapist and a teacher of
agricultural work. Each of the courses included two
periods: the first period lasted for 3 weeks and the
second for 1 week. held 6 months after the first.
slightly overweight (25