Age and gender normative data for lift capacity

Matheson, Leonard N.; Verna, Joe L.; Dreisinger, Thomas E.; Leggett, Scott H.; Mayer, John M.

doi:10.3233/wor-131671

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“…The exercise session included tasks that were chosen based on functional capacity assessments (e.g. Matheson's Group EPIC lift protocol), and in consultation with physiotherapists and occupational therapists (Matheson, 1993; Fisher & Jones, 2010; Oesch et al, 2015). The goal of the exercise session was to simulate the type of activity‐related pain that participants with low back pain may experience during their daily lives by performing everyday activities and movements.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The piloting allowed for the tasks to be designed as highly feasible to ensure that all participants could complete the standardized exercise session and that it would evoke a range of pain responses among the clinical cohort. An RPE of eight or greater was used as a termination criteria for the exercise session (Matheson, 1993). Pilot data collected in our lab from participants with chronic low back pain indicated an RPE of 8/10 was tolerable and did not elicit any persisting negative symptoms.…”

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Are biomarkers associated with sensitivity to physical activity?

Flegg,

Lima,

Woznowski‐Vu

et al. 2023

European Journal of Pain

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BackgroundActivity‐based treatments play an integral role in managing musculoskeletal conditions including low back pain. However, while therapeutic exercise has been shown to reduce pain in such conditions, certain individuals experience a paradoxical pain increase in response to exercise. The physiological processes underlying this sensitivity to physical activity (SPA) are not fully understood, however stress and inflammation have been shown to contribute to SPA. The present cross‐sectional study investigated whether physiological indicators of stress (cortisol) and inflammation (IL‐6) help explain SPA.MethodsTwenty‐seven patients with chronic low back pain and 21 healthy controls completed a 1‐h exercise session of standardized physical tasks. SPA was calculated from the difference between post‐ and pre‐exercise pain levels. Participant's saliva was collected at several timepoints for cortisol and IL‐6 levels quantification. Their waking cortisol response was calculated to reflect their cortisol regulation. Reactivity of IL‐6 and cortisol was calculated to reflect changes in these measures during exercise.ResultsIL‐6 reactivity was significantly and positively correlated with SPA among participants with low back pain. In contrast, neither cortisol waking response nor cortisol reactivity was significantly correlated within the low back pain group. No significant differences in IL‐6 reactivity, cortisol reactivity or cortisol waking response were observed.ConclusionThese findings are the first to link SPA to an objective biomarker among people with low back pain. These findings help describe the physiological mechanisms of SPA and can support new clinical research that targets the inflammatory response of patients with chronic low‐back pain and elevated SPA.SignificanceThis study reveals a correlation between SPA and an objective salivary biomarker of IL‐6 in people with low back pain, improving our understanding of this clinically relevant subjective experience.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are biomarkers associated with sensitivity to physical activity?

Flegg,

Lima,

Woznowski‐Vu

et al. 2023

European Journal of Pain

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“…Gender and age have a significant effect on lifting capacity (Matheson et al, 2014). Psychophysical rating of lift was found to be related to the strength and gender of the lifter (Jackson & Sekula, 1999).…”

Section: Proceedings Of the 2nd Indian International Conference On In...mentioning

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Effect of Anthropometry on Maximum Acceptable Weight of Lift

Ahmad,

Muzammil

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

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Manual material handling (MMH) and lifting activities are believed to contribute to the risk of low back pain (LBP). It has been found that as many as 50% of all back pains may be related to manual lifting activities. Revised NIOSH lifting equation (RNLE) was designed to reduce the incidence of LBP by recommending safe load limits, called the recommended load limit (RWL). While, an effect of worker characteristics like age, gender, weight and ethnicity, on load lifting task has been seen, the RNLE considers the effect of task demands only for establishing the RWLs. Thus, the present study investigates the role of worker anthropometry in a manual lifting task. The findings have been discussed in the light of the RNLE. A psychophysical methodology was adopted to arrive at the maximum acceptable weight limits (MAWLs). 50 industrial workers (25 males and 25 females) participated in the study. ANCOVA for gender using acromial height and wrist circumference as covariates showed that while acromial height and wrist circumference had a statistically significant effect on MAWL, gender did not. Further, it was observed that the using psychophysical criteria of 75% capable females (as per the RNLE guidelines), resulted in a MAWL of 22.2. kgs, which is comparable to the recommended weight limit (RWL) of 23 kg as obtained by the RNLE.

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“…Table -2 Lift Capacity :subset classification [5] Performance in the ELC subtests was studied in terms of both age and gender, the results of which are presented in Table 8. Main effects for both age group and gender are found for each of the subtests, (all p < 0.001).…”

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“…Main effects for both age group and gender are found for each of the subtests, (all p < 0.001). [5] An important use of the ELC data is to determine the adequacy of a person's lift capacity for his or her job's demands. And the values obtained from the above tabulation concluded that on an average, the liftable weight for an age group of (60+yrs) was found to be 23.78 kg and 15.76 kg for male and female gender respectively.…”

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An Alternative Methodology for Delivering Heavy Luggage’s From Baggage Carousel Using Rfid System

Mohamed¹,

Amritha.²,

Abishek.³

et al. 2020

IJEAST

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Baggage carousel is a device at an airport, that delivers checked luggage to the passengers at the baggage reclaim area. This device plays a major role in the baggage handling system (BHS) in airports. In the current handling system, passengers carrying heavy load or senior citizens find it difficult to carry their luggage and place it in the trolley (as the baggage remains in a circulating movement along the carousel). Thus, this article provides an alternate methodology to sort the heavy luggage in the baggage carousel using RFID system. The luggage can then be loaded on a hydraulic trolley. The hydraulic trolley can be adjusted to the required height using the pedal attached at the bottom of the trolley. Hence, a system is provided where the concerned passenger does not require to carry the luggage at any circumstance.

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Age and gender normative data for lift capacity

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 publications

Are biomarkers associated with sensitivity to physical activity?

Are biomarkers associated with sensitivity to physical activity?

Effect of Anthropometry on Maximum Acceptable Weight of Lift

An Alternative Methodology for Delivering Heavy Luggage’s From Baggage Carousel Using Rfid System

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