Back Injury Prevention

Back injury prevention interventions in the workplace: an integrative review.

The purpose of this integrative review is to describe the state of knowledge about the effect of worksite back injury prevention programs on selected study outcomes. Fifteen experimental and quasi-experimental studies published between 1987 and 1994 were identified through a comprehensive literature search. The research studies were reviewed and analyzed using a data collection abstracting tool...

A prospective study of back belts for prevention of back pain and injury.

CONTEXT Despite scientific uncertainties about effectiveness, wearing back belts in the hopes of preventing costly and disabling low back injury in employees is becoming common in the workplace. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of using back belts in reducing back injury claims and low back pain. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective cohort study. From April 1996 through April 1998, we iden...

O14: Trauma Surgery and Injury Prevention

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Injury prevention.

Injury Prevention