Feasibility of lumbar supports for home care workers with low back pain

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 317-323

  Jellema, Petra ^a   Bierma Zeinstra, S M A ^a   Van Poppel, M N M ^b   Bernsen, R M D ^a   Koes, B W ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Back pain; Home care; Lumbar support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRACES; CAREGIVERS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036751124     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/52.6.317     Document Type: Article

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