Back pain occurred due to changes in routinary activities among Brazilian schoolteachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rose Elizabeth Cabral BarbosaGiovanni Campos FonsecaNayra Suze Souza E SilvaRosângela Ramos Veloso SilvaAda Ávila AssunçãoDesirée Sant' Ana HaikalPublished in: International archives of occupational and environmental health (2021)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, schoolteachers reported a high prevalence of emergence of back pain, which delineates a contradiction in terms: on the one hand, distance education allows social distancing that contributes to the preservation of teachers' health by reducing the risk of contamination by COVID-19. On the other hand, it imposes new demands that-in disagreement with working conditions-can threaten the health of these workers.