The relative importance of whole body vibration and occupational lifting as risk factors for low-back pain

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 715-721

  Palmer, K T ^a   Griffin, M J ^b   Syddall, H E ^a   Pannett, B ^a   Cooper, C ^a   Coggon, D ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT LIFTING; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIFTING; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0141525204     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.10.715     Document Type: Article

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