Prevalence of low back pain in long distance truck drivers of mountainous terrain

Advances in Occupational, Social, and Organizational Ergonomics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 516-522

  Goon, Manish ^a   Ghoshal, Sutanu ^a   Chandrasekaran, Baskaran ^a   Sharma, Bidhan Chandra ^a  

^a SIKKIM MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Prevalence; Questionnaire; Truck drivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876567083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/EBK1439835074     Document Type: Chapter

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