Or should the government force people to be healthier, possibly through a communist China-style mass workplace exercise regimes?
Exercise training has been previously shown to improve fitness in older people however there has been no evaluation of workplace exercise program for older workers.
The home-exercise therapy programme was chosen for the experimental group because of its simplicity and low cost compared with workplace exercise programmes [ 15].
Tailored workplace exercise protocols have been suggested to be of greater effect, as compared to non-tailored exercise protocols [ 29, 30].
Theoretically, lower levels of preactivation as seen following 10 weeks of workplace exercise may contribute to lower spinal stiffness thus potentially resulting in a larger perturbated trunk response.
In these cases, policy or environmental measures - free tailored counseling programs or workplace exercise space - are likely to offer more benefit than genomic risk information.
One study showed effectiveness of a home exercise program in reducing shoulder pain in construction workers [ 17], but further randomized controlled trials are needed to evaluate the effect of workplace exercise interventions on shoulder, arm and wrist pain [ 10].
The study instrument was a self-administered questionnaire that was mailed in August 2012 to investigate their age class, specialty, workplace, exercise habits, and practices of exercise counseling for CKD.
Thus, the reduction in pain in WORK may have decreased the subject's fear of injury and therefore contributed to the lower preactivation levels observed after the 10 weeks of workplace exercise.
Swedish studies have shown that workplace exercise boosts productivity and decreases sick leave, so many modern companies have started office gyms or incentives for weight loss.
