What is it about?
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are often associated with a lack of adequate physical activity [1]. As a result of the lack of attention on the working conditions of office workers from both the employers and local organizations, the prevalence of MSDs is on the rise [2]. Office-based exercise programs have been found to be effective in reducing MSDs [3]. Despite a tremendous advancement in technology, the monitoring of office exercise training’s intensity remains a major problem to occupational therapists, physical therapists, and researchers. In endurance training researchers are able to monitor exercise intensity by measuring physiological parameters such as the percentage of VO2max, blood lactate concentration [4], and percentage of max heart rate [5]. However, there has been no single accepted method to monitor how ‘hard’ sedentary office employees are working during an office exercise training session. A measurement of intensity is needed to monitor progress and gather information how to increase the load where the current practice of using traditional quantified objective measurements is not adequate [6].
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Why is it important?
In the current study RPE was incorporated to encourage office workers to rate the training session globally and to simplify the myriad exercise intensity cues during the exercise process [2]. Perceived exertion is how hard they perceive their body is working and the rating can be determined using the Borg scale. This allows researchers or the therapists to evaluate trends in training, injury, and illness in relation to the RPE and the global intensity of the exercise session [12, 13]. The aim of this current analysis is to examine the reliability and validity of the Borg CR-10 scale for rating perceived exertion (RPE) that can be used to monitor the intensity of office exercise training. We hypothesize that the Borg CR-10 is a reliable and valid scale to measure office-based exercise training intensity level.
Perspectives
Exercise training sessions can be monitored with the help of several methods. Among these, perhaps the most legitimate and dependable especially in monitoring the intensity of office exercise is the RPE method by using Borg CR-10 scale. As it only needs a single assessment of workout intensity, the RPE method is therefore an easy to utilize tool. Occupational and physical therapists can rely on this method not only to discern exercise patterns on a weekly basis, but also to collect data to be entered into a training diary.
Dr Ardalan Shariat
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Borg CR-10 scale as a new approach to monitoring office exercise training, Work, September 2018, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/wor-182762.
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