Occupational back pain in Iranian nurses: an epidemiological study

Mohseni-Bandpei, Mohammad Ali; Fakhri, Moulod; Bagheri-Nesami, Masoumeh; Shirvani, Marjan Ahmad; Khalilian, A R; Shayestehazar, Masoud

doi:10.12968/bjon.2006.15.17.21904

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“…In terms of work absenteeism, 16.2 % of the sick leave days have been attributed to back pain, which accumulates to a loss of 764,000 working days annually [6]. Furthermore, loss of experienced staff due to such occupational injury is another indirect cost which has not been estimated [7].…”

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Prevalence, consequences and predictors of low back pain among nurses in a tertiary care setting

Abolfotouh

Mahmoud

Faraj

et al. 2015

International Orthopaedics (SICOT)

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Prevalence, consequences and predictors of low back pain among nurses in a tertiary care setting

Abolfotouh

Mahmoud

Faraj

et al. 2015

International Orthopaedics (SICOT)

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“…These investigators tried to assess various variables such as hip and torso muscles activation, lumbar spine posture, oxygenating in back extensor muscles, torso skin temperature, center of pressure center changes, strength, gluteus medius muscles activation and endurance tolerance, trunk muscles activation, and hamstring muscles tight. It is worth noting that these variables have been investigated in some studies about clinical and psychosocial assessment instruments [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. The effective factors in identifying individuals who are susceptive to low back pain were as the following: trunk flexor/extensor and bilateral gluteus medius muscles coactivation patterns, frontal plane control during clinical assessment and gluteus medius endurance, based on the visual analogue scale (VAS), in the pain developer group as compared to the non-pain developer group, the threshold showed an increase in the trunk flexor/extensor and of the VAS and the objective index of bilateral gluteus medius co-activation.…”

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Anti-fatigue mats, low back pain, and electromyography: An interventional study

Javad¹,

Ghaderi²,

Azghani³

et al. 2015

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: Increasing bilateral gluteus medius co-activation has been identified as one of the most important factors in developing low back pain due to prolonged standing in healthy people. This study aims to investigate the impact of an anti-fatigue mat on the bilateral gluteus medius co-activation pattern and to report the low back pain subjectively in 2 different standing positions on the normal rigid surface and on the anti-fatigue mat. Material and Methods: While carrying out an easy simulated profession, 16 participants who had no low back pain background were requested to stand for 2 h in each position, with and without using the anti-fatigue floor mat, respectively. At the beginning of standing process and at every 15 min until the time of 120 min lapses, electric activities for the bilateral gluteus medius co-activation and subjective pain level in low back area were collected by the surface electromyogeraphy (EMG) and the visual analogue scale (VAS), respectively in each position. Results: The obtained findings revealed that the anti-fatigue mat significantly decreased subjective pain level in low back area among 15 participants (p < 0.05). However, there was objectively no significant difference in the bilateral gluteus medius co-activation pattern among the participants between the position 1 and the position 2 (p > 0.05). The findings obtained under this study related to the impact of the anti-fatigue mat upon the low back pain based on the increase of > 10 mm on the VAS threshold, which showed that this in tervention had no significant impact upon decreasing the number of patients suffering from the low back pain and also minimizing the bilateral gluteus medius co-activation in both pain developer groups (p > 0.05). However, 73% of the participants preferred to apply it. Conclusions: It seems that the anti-fatigue mat may be useful in reducing the low back pain although it objectively didn't significantly change the gluteus medius co-activation pattern related to the low back pain.

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“…Epidemiological aspects of low back pain (LBP) have been reported in numerous studies, worldwide (Jin et al, 2004;Mohseni-Bandpei et al, 2006;Gourmelen et al, 2007;Mohseni-Bandpei et al, 2007;Schmidt et al, 2007). At least half of the general population will experience LBP at some point in their lifetime, with reported prevalence rates ranging from 51% to 84% (Cassidy et al, 1998;MohseniBandpei et al, in press).…”

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