Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

 Working-aged woman aged 20–65 years

 Diagnosed MSD and an MSD pain intensity score of 4 and higher based on the visual analog scale (VAS) [25, 26].

 The motivation and willingness to fully participate with any randomly allocated intervention

 Being married and living with the family

 Having no job other than housekeeping

 Not pregnant, nor breastfeeding

Exclusion criteria

 Not able to actively attend the training sessions

 Diagnosis of a congenital disease that can affect skeletal tissue

 Having a child under 2 years of age

 Becoming pregnant during the study

 The occurrence of an event or accident that does not allow the person to complete the whole study procedure

 Taking medication to treat a mental illness