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Basic rules fall short of prevention.
Today it is recognized that the most effective way to control back injuries is through proper design and evaluation of the workplace. These limits were published by the National Safety Council and others as the prevailing standard for the next 25 years. THE 1960's During the early 1960's, however, a renaissance fed by the increasing application of science to low back pain etiology began to take place in manual lifting research. A number of studies were based on the psychophysical approach, or the research method that relies on the subjective responses of test subjects under controlled conditions. The scientific literature also began to speak of back physiology, human kinetics, and the biomechanics of lifting.