The Back School programme when compared with the passive physical therapies (such as massage, ultrasound treatment, etc.) shows significant improvement in reduction in pain and greatly improves the posture of healthcare workers. The adoption of the Back School programme for the treatment of the healthcare workers with chronic low back problems should be a treatment of choice and standard that should be adopted when designing occupational healthcare policies and procedures.

We recommend that healthcare organisations should consider the implementation of regular Spine Care for Nurses programmes as successful low back injury prevention programmes.

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A605of treatment, where the training of the transverse abdominis muscle was stressed. Pearson product moment correlations, ANOVAs and paired sample t-tests were used to examine relationship. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The prevalence of DRA in our population was 46.5%. There was a measurable difference between the DRA and age (p= 0.099), BMI (p= 0.129), number of pregnancies (p= 0.126), and type of delivery (p= 0.058). The results between the number of deliveries and the IRD were significant (p< 0.001). We found a significant difference in quality of life (p= 0.017), in presence of low back pain (p= 0.039) and urinary incontinence (p= 0.028) between the normal and the DRA group. After the three month treatment we measured a significant (p= 0.028) smaller interrectus distance at the patients. ConClusions: Almost every second women are affected by diastasis recti. This condition predisposes on low back pain and urinary incontinence, therefore on a decreased quality of life. For that very reason it would be necessary to open the women's eyes to the benefits of physiotherapy.