A prospective cohort study of low-back outcomes and alternative measures of cumulative external and internal vibration load on the lumbar spine of professional drivers
Author(s) -
Massimo Bovenzi,
Marianne Schust
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.3947
Subject(s) - acceleration , medicine , vibration , lumbar , cohort , low back pain , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physical therapy , anthropometry , whole body vibration , mathematics , statistics , surgery , physics , acoustics , alternative medicine , classical mechanics , pathology
The aim of this study was to compare the performance of alternative measures of cumulative lifetime vibration dose to predict the occurrence of low-back pain (LBP) outcomes in a cohort of 537 professional drivers investigated at baseline and over a two-year follow up period.
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