A Cochrane Collaboration review of 19 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with a total of 3,584 participants found moderate evidence that back schools (where participants learn about back anatomy and function, mechanical strain and posture, and where exercise and activity programs are introduced) in occupational settings are effective in diminishing pain, improving function, and decreasing the ...

The times, they are a changing in long established European and North American democracies. Alarming numbers of young citizens seem to have turned their backs on government and conventional politics. It appears that contemporary politics in most societies increasingly fail to capture the interest and attention of young citizens, who are generally skeptical of politicians and party affiliation, ...

BACKGROUND With more than 1.1 million high school athletes playing annually during the 2005-06 to 2009-10 academic years, football is the most popular boys' sport in the United States. METHODS Using an internet-based data collection tool, RIO, certified athletic trainers (ATs) from 100 nationally representative US high schools reported athletic exposure and football injury data during the 200...

Back pain in children and adolescents is quite common, so developing preventive strategies for back pain is highly desirable. This article describes a planned school-based postural education project (PoSE) to promote healthy behaviors among middle school students and their families and to moderate postural diseases. As first s tep, we e valuated w hich a spects o f p ostural b ehaviors were i n...

Microblogging is the latest variant of blogging which allows users to post very short messages. Due to its ease interface, the possibility of directly addressing other users, and several surrounding services microblogging becomes more and more used in scientific conferences as main back-channel. This paper discusses microblogging with Twitter as main information back-channel in an exemplary use...