| Document ID (ISN) | 68768 |
| CIS number |
97-496 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1250-3274 - Archives des maladies professionnelles et de médecine du travail |
| Year |
1996 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Masset D., Malchaire J., Piette A., Cock N. |
| Title |
Cross-sectional study of low back pain and functional capabilities of the trunk |
| Original title |
Lombalgies et capacités fonctionnelles du tronc - Etude transversale [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
July 1996, Vol.57, No.4, p.256-263. 29 ref. |
| Abstract |
A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the interest of anthropometric measurements and isometric and dynamic performances of the trunk as discriminators between two groups of subjects with (L.B.P.) or without (N.L.B.P.) low back pain. These groups were composed respectively of 78 steelworkers having reported L.B.P. during the last 12 months and 315 without lumbar history. The protocol included an interview with questions about the lumbar symptoms, a clinical examination, anthropometric measurements and a series of functional tests performed with an isoinertial dynamometer. L.B.P. was significantly more frequent among the workers presenting gait abnormalities, impaired cervical mobility and of the static characteristics of the lower limbs in the frontal plane, while the anthropomorphic differences between the two groups concern solely the mesomorphy and ectomorphy indices of the Heath-Carter somatotype method. The functional performances of the trunk of the L.B.P. workers were almost uniformly reduced, but the differences reached significance only for the angular velocities and, to a lesser extent, for the dynamic torques. However, the discrimination analyses point out the poor interest of the isoinertial tests in the individual follow-up of the workers in occupational medicine. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
anthropometry; metalworking industry; backache; lumbar column |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
back disorders; steelworks; cross-sectional study |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | Belgium |
| Subject(s) |
Ergonomics and work organization
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
Metalworking industry
Anthropometry
Ergonomics
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