SELF-REPORTED BACK PAIN IN FORK-LIFT TRUCK AND FREIGHT-CONTAINER TRACTOR DRIVERS EXPOSED TO WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION

被引：90

作者：

BOSHUIZEN, HC

BONGERS, PM

HULSHOF, CTJ

机构：

[1] Coronel Laboratory, Facility of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

来源：

SPINE | 1992年 / 17卷 / 01期

关键词：

BACK PAIN; FORK-LIFT TRUCK DRIVERS; WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION;

D O I：

10.1097/00007632-199201000-00010

中图分类号：

R74 [神经病学与精神病学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

To study the long-term health effect of whole-body vibration, a questionnaire on symptoms of ill health was mailed to 242 drivers and a reference group of 210 workers from six harbor companies (response 81%). Vehicles driven were fork-lift trucks and freight-container tractors. Vibration level during a representative working period (vector sum of the frequency weighted acceleration in the x-, y-, and z-directions) was 0.8 m/sec2 for the fork-lift trucks and 1.0 m/sec2 for the freight-container tractors. Only the results concerning self-reported symptoms of the back are described. Of the young (< 35 years), short-term-exposed drivers, 68% reported that they had back pain regularly vs. only 25% of the reference group of comparable age. With increasing age, the difference in the prevalence of self-reported regular back pain between the drivers and the reference group disappeared. Driving during the 5 years preceding the onset of symptoms seemed to increase the risk of back pain, whereas earlier exposure did not.

引用

页码：59 / 65

页数：7

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