Tractor-driving hours and their relation to self-reported low-back and hip symptoms

Torén, Anna; Öberg, Katarina Görts; Lembke, B.; Enlund, Karin; Rask‐Andersen, Anna

doi:10.1016/s0003-6870(01)00061-8

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“…Similar results were observed in other studies focusing on other vehicles, such as agricultural tractors (e.g. Toren et al, 2002). Table 5 presents the results of the self-reported adopted postures.…”

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The influence of operator driving characteristics in whole-body vibration exposure from electrical fork-lift trucks

Costa

Arezes

2009

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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confidence: 86%

The influence of operator driving characteristics in whole-body vibration exposure from electrical fork-lift trucks

Costa

Arezes

2009

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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“…An association of tractor driving with the occurrence of osteoarthritis has been noted and discussed in previous studies [Thelin, 1981;Torén et al, 2003]. Our results do not support any relationship between tractor driving and osteoarthritis.…”

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confidence: 56%

Osteoarthritis of the hip joint and farm work

Thelin

Vingård

Holmberg

2004

American J Industrial Med

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“…Although WBV has long‐been associated with neck and low back pain in epidemiological studies, this is the first study linking WBV, pain, and molecular outcomes in the lumbar spinal cord (Figs. ).…”

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Whole‐body vibration induces pain and lumbar spinal inflammation responses in the rat that vary with the vibration profile

Zeeman

Kartha

Winkelstein

2016

Journal Orthopaedic Research

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Whole-body vibration (WBV) is linked epidemiologically to neck and back pain in humans, and to forepaw mechanical allodynia and cervical neuroinflammation in a rodent model of WBV, but the response of the low back and lumbar spine to WBV is unknown. A rat model of WBV was used to determine the effect of different WBV exposures on hind paw behavioral sensitivity and neuroinflammation in the lumbar spinal cord. Rats were exposed to 30 min of WBV at either 8 or 15 Hz on days 0 and 7, with the lumbar spinal cord assayed using immunohistochemistry at day 14. Behavioral sensitivity was measured using mechanical stimulation of the hind paws to determine the onset, persistence, and/or recovery of allodynia. Both WBV exposures induce mechanical allodynia 1 day following WBV, but only the 8 Hz WBV induces a sustained decrease in the withdrawal threshold through day 14. Similarly, increased activation of microglia, macrophages, and astrocytes in the superficial dorsal horn of the lumbar spinal cord is only evident after the painful 8 Hz WBV. Moreover, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-phosphorylation is most robust in neurons and astrocytes of the dorsal horn, with the most ERK phosphorylation occurring in the 8 Hz group. These findings indicate that a WBV exposure that induces persistent pain also induces a host of neuroimmune cellular activation responses that are also sustained. This work indicates there is an injury-dependent response that is based on the vibration parameters, providing a potentially useful platform for studying mechanisms of painful spinal injuries. ß

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Tractor-driving hours and their relation to self-reported low-back and hip symptoms

Cited by 41 publications

References 25 publications

The influence of operator driving characteristics in whole-body vibration exposure from electrical fork-lift trucks

The influence of operator driving characteristics in whole-body vibration exposure from electrical fork-lift trucks

Osteoarthritis of the hip joint and farm work

Whole‐body vibration induces pain and lumbar spinal inflammation responses in the rat that vary with the vibration profile

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