A Controlled Trial of an Educational Program to Prevent Low Back Injuries
Lawren H. Daltroy,Maura D. Iversen,Martin G. Larson,Robert A. Lew,Elizabeth A. Wright,James Ryan,Craig Zwerling,Anne H. Fossel,Matthew H. Liang +8 more
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A large-scale, randomized, controlled trial of an educational program to prevent work-associated low back injury found no long-term benefits associated with training.Abstract:
Background Low back injuries are common and costly, accounting for 15 to 25 percent of injuries covered by workers' compensation and 30 to 40 percent of the payments made under that program. The high costs of injury, the lack of effective treatment, and the evidence that there are behavioral risk factors have led to widespread use of employee education programs that teach safe lifting and handling. The effectiveness of those programs, however, has received little rigorous evaluation. Methods We evaluated an educational program designed to prevent low back injury in a randomized, controlled trial involving about 4000 postal workers. The program, similar to that in wide use in so-called back schools, was taught by experienced physical therapists. Work units of workers and supervisors were trained in a two-session back school (three hours of training), followed by three to four reinforcement sessions over the succeeding few years. Injured subjects (from both the intervention and the control groups) were rand...read more
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Occupational health guidelines for the management of low back pain at work – evidence review
Anthony Burton,Gordon Waddell +1 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature to inform the development of occupational health guidelines for the management of low back pain at work is presented in this article, where the strongest evidence suggests that generally the physical demands at work have only a modest influence on the incidence of LBP or permanent spinal damage; preventive strategies based on the injury model do not reduce LBP, individual and work-related psychosocial factors play an important role in persisting symptoms and work loss; the management approach should be 'active' (including early work return); the combination of clinical, rehabilitation and organisational interventions
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Relative effectiveness of worker safety and health training methods.
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Occupational health guidelines for the management of low back pain at work: evidence review.
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TL;DR: There is increasing demand for evidence-based health care, and back pain is one of the most common and difficult occupational health problems, but there has been no readily available evidence base or guidance on management.
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Chapter 2. European guidelines for prevention in low back pain : November 2004.
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TL;DR: The general nature and course of commonly experienced LBP means that there is limited scope for preventing its incidence (first-time onset), so there is considerable scope for prevention of the consequences of LBP.
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