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Explains how to prevent low back pain in the workplace, saving employers extraordinary amounts in medical costs and protecting individual workers from common on-the-job injury.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marras, William S. (William Steven), 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, ©2008.
Temas:
Backache > Etiology.
Backache > Risk factors.
Occupational diseases.
Human engineering.
Biomechanical Phenomena
Low Back Pain > prevention & control
Occupational Diseases > prevention & control
Ergometry
Occupational Diseases
Ergonomics
Maladies professionnelles.
Ergonomie.
ergonomics.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
Backache > Etiology
Human engineering
Occupational diseases
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Back pain magnitude and potential risk factors
  • Function, structure, and support of the back
  • The process of pain
  • Potential pathways to back pain
  • The assessment of biomechanical forces acting on the low back
  • The influence of physical work factors on muscle activities and spine loads
  • Psychosocial and organizational factor influence on spine loading
  • Individual factors role in spine loading.
  • Physical, individual, and psychosocial/organizational risk factor interactions
  • Engineering controls to mediate back pain at work : tools for the assessment of physical factor impact on spine loads and intervention effectiveness
  • Administrative controls for the workplace : psychosocial and organizational interventions
  • Integrating risk interventions into the workplace
  • Understanding recurrent low back pain and implications for return to work.

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