A Study of Low Back Pain Land Carriage Workers from Questionnaire.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between the low back pain and the circumstance of load carriage workers in Yamaguch prefecture from a questionnaire. It comprised 994 persons (849 men and 145 women) in the following three basic occupations: office worker, truck driver and luggage lifter. The 55.2% of office workers, 80.9% of truck drivers and 78.4% of luggage lifters had experienced low back pain. In this study, the percentage of men who had low back pain was 24.3% among office worker, 56.8% among truck driver and 50.0% among luggage lifter. The workers who treat the heavy load complain their low back pain in higher rate than those who don't treat it. Our data indicates that the incidence of low back pain become high in three basic occupations in comparison with the past data.
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