Physical workload and accelerated occurrence of lumbar spine diseases: Risk and rate advancement periods in a German multicenter case-control study

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-36

  Seidler, Andreas ^a   Euler, Ulrike ^b   Bolm Audorff, Ulrich ^c   Ellegast, Rolf ^d   Grifka, Joachim ^e   Haerting, Johannes ^f   Jäger, Matthias ^g   Michaelis, Martina ^h   Kuss, Oliver ^f  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

^c RP Darmstadt   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT FÜR ARBEITSSCHUTZ DER DEUTSCHEN GESETZLICHEN UNFALLVERSICHERUNG IFA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^g TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EPILIFT; Lumbar disc disease; RAP; Risk acceleration

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE DISEASE; WORKLOAD;

GERMANY;

EID: 79957668110     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3121     Document Type: Article

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