working back
Subtitle: a systems approach to understanding how work influences low back pain
By: William S. Marras.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470134054
Subjects: Backache -- Etiology; Backache -- Risk factors; Occupational diseases; Human engineering; Low Back Pain -- prevention & control; Occupational Diseases -- prevention & control; Biomechanics; Ergometry
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.
Table of contents: title: Back pain magnitude and potential risk factors; title: Function, structure, and support of the back; title: The process of pain; title: Potential pathways to back pain; title: The assessment of biomechanical forces acting on the low back; title: The influence of physical work factors on muscle activities and spine loads; title: Psychosocial and organizational factor influence on spine loading; title: Individual factors role in spine loading; title: Physical, individual, and psychosocial/organizational risk factor interactions; title: Engineering controls to mediate back pain at work : tools for the assessment of physical factor impact on spine loads and intervention; title: Administrative controls for the workplace : psychosocial and organizational interventions; title: Integrating risk interventions into the workplace; title: Understanding recurrent low back pain and implications for return to work.