Open AccessLow-back pain in commercial travelers.
Author(s) -
Françoise Pietri,
Annette Leclerc,
Liliane Boitel,
J.-F. Chastang,
JeanFrançois Morcet,
Michel Blondet
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.1614
Subject(s) - low back pain , medicine , back pain , physical therapy , incidence (geometry) , occupational safety and health , work (physics) , human factors and ergonomics , psychology , poison control , environmental health , alternative medicine , mechanical engineering , physics , pathology , optics , engineering
The role of occupational environment in the occurrence of low-back pain was analyzed for 1719 commercial travelers (1376 men and 343 women). At the beginning of the study (T0) the group was interviewed to determine current lifestyle and occupational factors associated with low-back pain during the previous 12 months. Twelve months later (at T1), a subsample of 1118 persons (893 men, 225 women) was reinterviewed to study the association between the incidence of low-back pain during the year of follow-up and the risk factors at T0. At T0 low-back pain was significantly related with time spent driving a car at work, comfort of the car seat, carrying loads during work, standing for long periods at work, smoking, and psychosomatic factors. At T1 driving 10 h/week or more, seat comfort, and psychosomatic factors were associated with first occurrence of low-back pain.