Low Back Pain: A Comprehensive Research Approach to Minimizing It
Date: January 22
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Place: Dunstan 202
Kermit Davis
Department of Environmental Health
University of Cincinnati
Abstract
Low Back Pain: A Comprehensive Research Approach to Minimizing It
The prevalence of employee low back pain (LBP) problems in the workplace indicate
that current approaches to its prevention have not been successful. Future initiatives
must not only take into account for physical and psychosocial workplace factors,
but also include individual characteristics which often hinder a worker's ability
to remain on the job. Individuals with different capabilities respond differently
to external job demands - adopting different movement profiles, muscle responses
and perceptions, all of which impact the risk of an injury. Once an individual
becomes injured, neuromuscular adaptations can occur that can lead to further
deterioration and possibly complete disability. This lecture will discuss how
the understanding of pain pathways and underlying injury mechanisms can lead to
a reduction or elimination of lower back disorders in the workplace.
