Upper body quadrant pain in bus drivers

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 218-223

  Alperovitch Najenson, Deborah ^a   Katz Leurer, Michal ^a   Santo, Yoav ^b   Golman, Diana ^a   Kalichman, Leonid ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Sigo Consultants   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bus drivers; Neck pain; Psychosocial risk factors; Upper body quadrant pain; Work related musculoskeletal disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRIVER; ELBOW DISEASE; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NECK PAIN; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHOULDER PAIN; UPPER BODY QUADRANT PAIN; URBAN AREA; WRIST DISEASE; BIOENGINEERING; CAR DRIVING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; STATISTICS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; NECK PAIN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SHOULDER PAIN;

EID: 79952115413     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2010.486422     Document Type: Article

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