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The Working Back : a Systems View [E-Book]

By: Publication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780470258569
  • 047025856X
  • 9780470258576
  • 0470258578
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • 2008 E-171
  • WE 750
Online resources:
Contents:
Back pain magnitude and potential risk factors -- Function, structure, and support of the back -- The process of pain -- Potential pathways to back pain -- The assessment of biomechanical forces acting on the low back -- The influence of physical work factors on muscle activities and spine loads -- Psychosocial and organizational factor influence on spine loading -- Individual factors role in spine loading.
Physical, individual, and psychosocial/organizational risk factor interactions -- Engineering controls to mediate back pain at work : tools for the assessment of physical factor impact on spine loads and intervention effectiveness -- Administrative controls for the workplace : psychosocial and organizational interventions -- Integrating risk interventions into the workplace -- Understanding recurrent low back pain and implications for return to work.
Summary: Explains how to prevent low back pain in the workplace, saving employers extraordinary amounts in medical costs and protecting individual workers from common on-the-job injury.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Back pain magnitude and potential risk factors -- Function, structure, and support of the back -- The process of pain -- Potential pathways to back pain -- The assessment of biomechanical forces acting on the low back -- The influence of physical work factors on muscle activities and spine loads -- Psychosocial and organizational factor influence on spine loading -- Individual factors role in spine loading.

Physical, individual, and psychosocial/organizational risk factor interactions -- Engineering controls to mediate back pain at work : tools for the assessment of physical factor impact on spine loads and intervention effectiveness -- Administrative controls for the workplace : psychosocial and organizational interventions -- Integrating risk interventions into the workplace -- Understanding recurrent low back pain and implications for return to work.

Explains how to prevent low back pain in the workplace, saving employers extraordinary amounts in medical costs and protecting individual workers from common on-the-job injury.

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