Low Back Pain and Manual Materials Handling Research in Korea.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Manual handling activities and risk of low back pain in nurses.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the risk factors for low back pain in hospital nurses, with particular emphasis on the role of specific nursing activities. METHODS A cross sectional survey of 2405 nurses employed by a group of teaching hospitals was carried out. Self administered questionnaires were used to collect information about occupational activities, non-occupational risk factors for back sym...
متن کاملStudy of low back pain intensity and disability index among manual material handling workers of a tile and ceramic industrial unit, Iran (2016)
Background: The revised National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) lifting equation (RNLE) is commonly used for risk assessment of manual handling, and can estimate low back pain (LBP) biomechanical stressors of lifting and/or lowering of loads. The aim of this study was to evaluate manual material handling by using the RNLE, LBP, and LBP disability index (LBPDI) among worker...
متن کاملProper manual handling techniques to prevent low back pain, a Cochrane systematic review.
Training and provision of assistive devices are considered major interventions to prevent and treat low back pain (LBP) among workers exposed to manual material handling (MMH). To establish the effectiveness of training and provision of assistive devices in preventing and treating LBP an update of a Cochrane literature review was performed to November 2010. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) a...
متن کاملHyper Mobility and Low Back Pain in the Athletic Population
Objectives: It is important to recognize any risk factors for the development of injuries in the athletic population. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between joint hyper mobility and low back pain in Iranian hyper mobile and non-hyper mobile athletes. Methods: 50 athletic patients with low back pain (age=23.20±12.79 years) and 51 healthy athletes (age=24.28&pl...
متن کاملProspective validation of a low-back disorder risk model and assessment of ergonomic interventions associated with manual materials handling tasks.
The evaluation of low-back disorder risk associated with materials handling tasks can be performed using a variety of assessment tools. Most of these tools vary greatly in their underlying logic, yet few have been assessed for their predictive ability. It is important to document how well an assessment tool realistically reflects the job's injury risk, since only valid and accurate tools can re...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese journal of ergonomics
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0549-4974,1884-2844
DOI: 10.5100/jje.33.supplement_50