Low back pain among Irish farmers

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-61

  O'Sullivan, Deirdre ^a,b   Cunningham, Caitriona ^a   Blake, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Tennis   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Farmers; Health promotion; Low back pain; Manual handling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; BIOMECHANICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IRELAND; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IRELAND; LIFTING; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 58149396157     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqn160     Document Type: Article

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