BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) affects more than one third of the population at any given time, and chronic LBP is responsible for increased medical costs, functional limitations and decreased quality of life. A clear etiology is often difficult to identify, but aberrant posture and movement are considered contributing factors to chronic LBP that are addressed during physiotherapy intervention....

Document recognition is required to convert handwritten and text documents into digital equivalents, making them more easily accessible convenient store. This study combined feature extraction techniques for recognizing Yorùbá in an effort preserve the cultural values heritages of people. Ten were acquired from Kwara State University’s Library, ten indigenous literate writers wrote version docu...

BACKGROUND Although low back pain (LBP) represents a common occupational problem, few epidemiological studies have investigated the prevalence and risk factors for LBP among school teachers, particularly in Africa. School teachers are known to represent an occupational group among which there appears to be a high prevalence of LBP. The objective of this study was, therefore, to conduct one of t...

Purpose of study. The purpose this study is to analyze the effect sacral-lumbar orthoses on occurrence pain in patients with low back (LBP) and effects these muscles that stabilize trunk based available literature. Methods. For study, following databases were searched: Pubmed, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Medline, others using Google Scholar search engine keywords: pain, lbp exercise, epidemiology, o...

Effective and real-time face detection has been made possible by using the method of rectangle Haar-like features with AdaBoost learning since Viola and Jones’ work [12]. In this paper, we present the use of a new set of distinctive rectangle features, called Multi-block Local Binary Patterns (MB-LBP), for face detection. The MB-LBP encodes rectangular regions’ intensities by local binary patte...

Professional dancers suffer a high incidence of injuries, especially to the spine and lower extremities. There is a lack of experimental research addressing low back pain (LBP) in dancers. The aim of this study is to compare lumbopelvic motor control, muscle extensibility and sacroiliac joint pain between dancers with and without a history of LBP. 40 pre-professional dancers (mean age of 20.3 y...

BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal issues facing military helicopter pilots. It is clinically important to identify differences in musculoskeletal characteristics between pilots with and without a LBP history for formulating effective interventions. OBJECTIVE To compare lumbar spine and hip flexibility and trunk strength in pilots with and without a LBP h...

CONTEXT Hip function has been proposed to be related to low back pain (LBP) because of the anatomical proximity of the hip and lumbopelvic region. To date, findings have been inconclusive, possibly because the samples studied were heterogeneous. Sub-grouping samples based on characteristics such as activity demand, LBP classification, and sex might clarify research findings. OBJECTIVE To desc...

BACKGROUND Most epidemiological data concerning low back pain (LBP) are from high-income countries and there is very little information about LBP in the working population in developing countries. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of LBP in Iranian industrial workers. To explore associations between LBP and physical and psychosocial factors at work, as well as lifestyle factors. METHOD...

Wool handling is an important rural occupation where workers process 200 or more fleeces daily, separating them into various quality components. Loads and postures they experience carry substantial risk of low back pain (LBP). Although a formal skill training structure exists, interaction with loads and LBP is unknown. We examined whether skill and LBP influenced trunk postures and loads of 60 ...