Short description Low back pain is a disorder that will effect 80% of the workforce at some point in its career--and is responsible for over 40% of the compensation costs for work-related injuries. This book will explain how to effectively prevent low back pain in the workplace, saving employers extraordinary amounts in medical costs and protecting individual workers from the most common on-the-job injury.
From the contents Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Back Pain Magnitude and Potential Risk Factors.
Chapter 3: Function, Structure, and Support of the Back.
Chapter 4: The Process of Pain.
Chapter 5: Potential Pathways to Back Pain.
Chapter 6: The Assessment of Biomechanical Forces Acting on the Low Back.
Chapter 7: The Influence of Physical Work Factors on Muscle Activities and Spine Loads.
Chapter 8: Psychosocial and Organizational Factor Influence on Spine Loading.
Chapter 9: Individual Factors Role in Spine Loading.
Chapter 10: Physical, Individual, and Psychosocial/Organizational Risk Factor Interactions.
Chapter 11: Engineering Controls to Mediate Back Pain at Work: Tools for the Assessment of Physical Factor Impact on Spine Loads and Intervention.
Chapter 12: Administrative Controls for the Workplace: Psychosocial and Organizational Interventions.
Chapter 13: Integrating Risk Interventions into the Workplace.
Chapter 14: Understanding Recurrent Low Back Pain and Implications for Return to Work.
