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Physical activities to prevent back pain in school age children and improve their physical health.
This will be achieved through the establishment and implementation of a necessary guide at European level of exercises for children and teenagers designed to avoid back pain and to learn a healthy lifestyle to avoid it. It would permit the creation of a programme of exercises focused on preventing back pain that can be applied everywhere in schools and places of education, promoting physical activity amongst these groups.
To assure and improve the quality level of physical and mental health in children and teenagers, achieving also a better knowledge and information in the field of physiotherapy. This will be achieved by the establishment and implementation of the necessary guide exercises programmes at European level, which would permit the creation of specific exercises focused on avoiding back pain in these vulnerable groups that can be applied everywhere. Nevertheless collaboration with parents and educators associations and other existing health care networks will raise the profile of the exercises.
To promote the efficient use of medical resources at the European level by promoting physical exercises among the target groups, which means improving their physical health, and therefore their mental health and quality of life. National Health Systems will save money through the prevention and consequent reduction of the number of injuries requiring treatment among children and teenagers.
To guarantee the fulfilment of the requirements of the EU Public Health Programme throughout the project to assure an efficient decision-making process and to promote health and prevent disease through addressing health determinants across all policies and activities. This objective will be achieved through the coordination and management of the lead partner.
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The first specific objective is collecting best practices in the field of physical activity for preventing back pain in children and teenagers.
The second specific objective is to study different practices in the European Union Member States in the field of physical activity to avoid back pain and more healthy lifestyles and to create guide exercises programmes at the European level.
The third specific objective is to disseminate this information as widely as possible to promote physical activities and improve health and reduce back pain injuries in children and teenagers. Making this information widely known is absolutely essential for the success of the project.
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Once the guide exercises programme has been approved by the partners, a European Presentation Conference will take place in Brussels followed by a workshop. It will be focused on European and National Authorities, European Level representatives of Health Care professionals, the media in order to disseminate widely the guide and its tools. The target groups will be informed about this conference and the workshop. Over 300 participants are expected. Flyers and explanatory CD-ROMs will be created containing the guide and information about the project tools. The workshop will involve those who developed the guide exercises programme to demonstrate it in a practical way to interested parties, health care professionals, patients� representatives, educators, parents and the general public and the media.
Presentations will also be made to the European Health Forum and High Level Group in Brussels and, if possible, two exhibitions will be organised in the European Parliament.
Dissemination of the project will also be carried out through the partners. As the partners are the national associations of their countries, dissemination of the project will be undertaken by presentations to the target groups in their own countries as well as national authorities, national-level health care professional representatives, the target groups, and the general public and the media. Educational material will be prepared for the partners to be used in their countries.
Dissemination of the project will be focused basically on three key groups because they are the principal actors in prevention of back pain problems. These groups are firstly, children, teenagers and their schools; secondly European national health and education authorities; and finally professionals in the field of physiotherapy, especially those who are providing child health care services, universities of physical therapy, European educators, parents and health care networks.
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Guide exercises programme for prevention of back pain in children, teenagers, their teachers and schools and professionals in the field of physiotherapy. This guide will contain exercises, pieces of advice on back pain prevention for a real improvement in the level of the quality of life of this vulnerable group and a full programme that individuals can carry out on their own.
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