Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in female Swedish physical therapists with more than 15 years of job experience: Prevalence and associations with work exposures

Physiotherapy Theory and Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-222

  Grooten, Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas ^a,c   Wernstedt, Philip ^a   Campo, Marc ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b MERCY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SE 171 76   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN; TIME;

AGED; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); POSTURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952927277     PISSN: 09593985     EISSN: 15325040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09593985.2010.481323     Document Type: Article

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