Occupational low back pain among workers in some small-sized factories in Ardabil, Iran

Industrial Health

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-139

  Mazloum, Adel ^a   Nozad, Hojjatollah ^b   Kumashiro, Masaharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b ARDABIL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Lifting load; Low back pain; Manual material handling; Musculoskeletal disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPLOYEE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERGONOMICS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; IRAN; JOINT LIMITATION; LASEGUE SIGN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE COMPRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OSTEOPHYTE; PREEMPLOYMENT MEDICAL EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; IRAN; LOW BACK PAIN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644526639     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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