Back Pain in Middle Age; Occupational Workload and Psychologic Factors: An Epidemiologic Survey

Bergenudd, Hans; Nilsson, Bo

doi:10.1097/00007632-198801000-00014

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“…One study found a nonsignificant negative effect for heavy physical work (104). Five studies showed that a high level of physical activity had a statistically significant positive effect (60,74,77,94,96). According to these results there is moderate evidence that a high level of physical activity is a risk factor for back pain.…”

Section: Heavy Physical Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Twenty-seven studies met the inclusion criteria . On the basis of a screening of the references of the articles on these studies and recent reviews (9, l l ) , an additional 9 studies were included (94)(95)(96)(97)(98)(99)(100)(101)(102)(103)(104). The selection of studies for inclusion, from a random sample (N=100) of the papers identified in Medline by the second reviewer, led to an initial 2% disagreement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Five high and 6 lowquality studies reported on the effect of this exposure (27,29,38,60,61,73,74,77,94,96,104). Since 4 of the high-quality studies only reported that no statistically significant effect was found (29,38,61,73), assessment of the consistency of the evidence for this exposure was based on the combined results of the 1 high-and the 5 low-quality studies that reported an estimate or the direction of the effect found.…”

Section: Heavy Physical Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The effect of a cumulative work load (94), the effect of short-term physical exertion (77) and current physical work-load at baseline (60, 74,96) were examined. It was, however, not possible to draw separate conclusions for the cumulative and short-term effects of heavy physical work.…”

Section: Heavy Physical Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Physical load during work and leisure time as risk factors for back pain

Hoogendoorn

Poppel²,

Bongers³

et al. 1999

Scand J Work Environ Health

472

268

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This systematic review assessed aspects of physical load during work and leisure time as risk factors for back pain. Several reviews on this topic are available, but this one is based on a strict systematic approach to identify and summarize the evidence, comparable with that applied in the clinical literature on the efficacy of intervention for back pain. A computerized bibliographical search was made of several data bases for studies with a cohort or casereferent design. Cross-sectional studies were excluded. A rating system was used to assess the strength of the evidence, based on the methodological quality of 28 cohort and 3 case-referent studies and the consistency of the findings. Strong evidence exists for manual materials handling, bending and twisting, and whole-body vibration as risk factors for back pain. The evidence was moderate for patient handling and heavy physical work, and no evidence was found for standing or walking, sitting, sports, and total leisure-time physical activity.

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Section: Heavy Physical Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Heavy Physical Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Heavy Physical Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Physical load during work and leisure time as risk factors for back pain

Hoogendoorn

Poppel²,

Bongers³

et al. 1999

Scand J Work Environ Health

472

268

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“…In industrialized western countries, the lifetime prevalence of back pain ranges from 58 to 85%, with a point prevalence of 20-40% [4,6,46,47,65]. Despite medical advances, extensive occupational safety measures, and more widespread use of automated production systems in parallel with increasing tertiarization, the impact of back pain continues to increase in Germany and elsewhere; in fact, the number of back-pain-related days off work has risen in Germany by a factor of ten over the past 30 years [47].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%