scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL RISK FACTORS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOWER BACK PAIN IN INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-80
Author(s):  
V. A. Shirokov ◽  
A. V. Potaturko ◽  
Nikita L. Terekhov ◽  
S. I. Solodushkin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Occupational Risk Factors ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. Spondylogenic back pain is common in the working-age population and often results in a working disability. In order to ensure professional decision-making and inform preventive measures, occupational risk factors for low back pain (LBP) need to be identified. Material and methods. Using a regular medical check-up examination data, we analyzed the prevalence and the odds ratio of LBP in 3215 individuals working in physically demanding jobs and exposed to physical inactivity and vibration. Results. No statistically significant differences in LBP prevalence were found between workers exposed to low total physical activity (PA), in and out of work, and those exposed to physical overwork (38.9% и 33.8% respectively). Physical inactivity in the workplace and hypodynamia during leisure-time cause similar effects and increase the risk of LBP by 1.5 times. A combination of occupational factors such as a constrained posture (class 3.1-3.2 according to the National Labor Legislation) and whole-body vibration increases LBP risk up to 78.7%. Whereas the combination of a constrained posture, prolonged sedentary position, and whole-body vibration, increases LBP prevalence up to 84.21% (OR: 80). Conclusions. The highest risk of LBP (OR: 80.0) was assigned to the combination of constrained posture, prolonged sedentary position, and whole-body vibration. The obtained data suggest that both low PA and physical overwork increase the risk of LBP, whereas moderate PA reduces it.

Whole body vibration and posture as risk factors for low back pain among forklift truck drivers

2005 ◽  
Vol 284 (3-5) ◽  
pp. 933-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hoy ◽  
N. Mubarak ◽  
S. Nelson ◽  
M. Sweerts de Landas ◽  
M. Magnusson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
Forklift Truck

scholarly journals Preventive action with a population of excavator drivers exposed to whole-body vibration

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-481
Author(s):  
P. Bossi ◽  
P. Meert
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Lower Back Pain ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Preventive Action ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Exposure Levels

BACKGROUND: Whole-body vibration is a major cause of lower back pain among employees, and the medical and preventive care teams of occupational health departments are often confronted with lower back pain problems among machine operators. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this research are to determine the number of excavator drivers exposed to whole-body vibration levels above 0.5m/s2, identify other exposure factors that may contribute to back pain, and propose corrective measures. METHODS: Vibration measurements were carried out on individual excavator drivers while they were observed carrying out working tasks, after which prevention advice is given. Factors which determine vibration levels are logged on to a database. RESULTS: The multivariate analysis of several determining factors shows vibration exposure levels vary depending on the varied work tasks being carried out. CONCLUSION: This study identifies exposed employees among excavator operators. For each workstation, the determining factors that could explain the high exposures to vibrations are identified. This work shows the important role of tasks on exposure levels. A better adaptation of the tools used to carry out work tasks would allow a decrease in the vibration level of this type of machine.

Quantifying The Impact That Coxswain Behaviour Has on Whole Body Vibration - Simulator Trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (A3) ◽  
Author(s):  
T J Newman
Keyword(s):  
Phase 1 ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Motion Platform ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
Sea Trial ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Exposure Levels ◽  
Transit Speed ◽  
The Impact

A common risk to personnel is from Whole Body Vibration (WBV) and shock when transiting at speed in heavy seas, and much research has been done by maritime organisations to reduce this risk and the associated health impacts. It is well known that coxswain ‘driving style’ can radically affect exposure levels for a given sea state and sustained transit speed. A data-driven approach to define what makes a good coxswain from a WBV perspective is currently being developed by the Naval Design Partnering team (NDP). In phase 1, a systematic coxswain behaviour tracking methodology has been developed and demonstrated using a motion platform-based fast craft simulator at MARIN. The performance of several experienced volunteer coxswains from MOD, RNLI and KNRM has been evaluated based on a set pattern of tests. The advantages of using the simulator, over a sea trial, have been demonstrated: it is more repeatable, more controllable, accurate and more accessible. The potential disadvantages of the approach are also discussed with reference to feedback gathered from coxswains. Analysis has shown effective throttle control is much more important than steering to reduce WBV. Several interesting trends in WBV reduction potential have been shown which it is thought, with further validation, could aid mission planning, mission execution and provide data for training autonomous feedback/control algorithms. Further work is required before the findings of this study can be fully exploited. These subsequent phases, which include sea trials, aim to provide validation and further evidence to support the initial findings.

scholarly journals Whole-body vibration exercise for low back pain

Medicine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (38) ◽  
pp. e12534
Author(s):  
Yi-Li Zheng ◽  
Zhi-Jie Zhang ◽  
Meng-Si Peng ◽  
Hao-Yu Hu ◽  
Ju Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
Vibration Exercise

scholarly journals Occupational Vibration in Urban Bus and Influence on Driver’s Lower Limbs

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
M. Cvetkovic ◽  
J. Santos Baptista ◽  
M. A. Pires Vaz
Keyword(s):  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
Prisma Statement ◽  
Physical Changes ◽  
Iso 2631 ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Whole Body Vibrations

The whole-body vibration occurs in many occupational activities, promoting discomfort in the working environment and inducing a variety of psycho – physical changes where consequences as a permanent dysfunction of certain parts of the organism may occur. The main goal of this short systematic review is finding the articles with the most reliable results relating whole-body vibrations to buses and, to compare them with the results of drivers’ lower limbs musculoskeletal disease which occurs as a consequence of many year exposure. PRISMA Statement Methodology was used and thereby 27 Scientific Journals and 25 Index - Database were searched through where 3996 works were found, of which 24 were included in this paper. As a leading standard for analysis of the whole-body vibration the ISO 2631 – 1 is used, while in some papers as an additional standard the ISO 2631-5 is also used for the sake of better understanding the vibrations. Furthermore, the European Directive 2002/44 / EC is included where a daily action exposure to the whole-body vibrations is exactly deter-mined. All the results presented in the paper were compared with the aforesaid standards. After having searched the databases, papers that deal with research of the impact of the vibration on the driver’s lower limbs did not contain any information’s on the described problem.

POSSIBLE MECHANISMS OF LOW BACK PAIN DUE TO WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION

1998 ◽  
Vol 215 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.H. Pope ◽  
D.G. Wilder ◽  
M. Magnusson
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Body Vibration
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