UID:
almahu_9948197352902882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780470258569
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047025856X
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9780470258576
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0470258578
Content:
Explains how to prevent low back pain in the workplace, saving employers extraordinary amounts in medical costs and protecting individual workers from common on-the-job injury.
Note:
Back pain magnitude and potential risk factors -- Function, structure, and support of the back -- The process of pain -- Potential pathways to back pain -- The assessment of biomechanical forces acting on the low back -- The influence of physical work factors on muscle activities and spine loads -- Psychosocial and organizational factor influence on spine loading -- Individual factors role in spine loading.
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Physical, individual, and psychosocial/organizational risk factor interactions -- Engineering controls to mediate back pain at work : tools for the assessment of physical factor impact on spine loads and intervention effectiveness -- Administrative controls for the workplace : psychosocial and organizational interventions -- Integrating risk interventions into the workplace -- Understanding recurrent low back pain and implications for return to work.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Marras, William S. (William Steven), 1952- Working back. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, ©2008
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470258576
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470258576
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470258576
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470258576
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