Epidemiologic study of low back pain in VDT workers

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There are less investigations on low back pain in office workers than those in physical workers. The object of this crosssectional study is the first step of a prospective research to investigate occupational and non occupational factors of low back pain in VDT (Video Display Terminals) workers. The prevalence of low back pain and the working conditions were investigated in the 237 workers who engaged in the VDT operations. Almost 30% of the workers complained of low back pain regardless of sex. In about half of them, low back pain had first occurred after having started working. Among the women in twenties and thirties who held a majority and had relatively uniform working conditions, occupational and non occupational factors are compared among three groups, having no low back pain, low back pain only in working and low back pain in daily life. Only the working years in the last group was longer than that in the other groups.
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