Pain and disability do not influence psychological and social factors at work among sick-listed patients with neck and back pain

Abstract

Sick-listed patients with neck and back pain who had concurrent anxiety or depression reported increased psychological and social challenges at work. To provide suitable treatment in the clinical setting, further attention should be paid to the interaction between anxiety or depression and perceived job strain.

Are job strain and sleep disturbances prognostic factors for low-back pain? A cohort study of a general population of working age in Sweden

“…If job strain (high demands/low control) is present, physiological reactions, such as muscle tension, are proposed to increase the risk of subsequent periods of LBP (11,12). However, findings on the association between job strain and LBP vary (7,13). Hartvigsen et al (7) concluded in a review from 2004 that there is insufficient evidence for the association between low job control and LBP, whereas, to date, evidence is emerging that work-related stress, defined in the "demand-control-model," is associated with LBP (8,14,15).…”