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Timothy R. Dillingham, MD, MS

JAMA. 1998;279:1826-1828.

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Low back pain is a costly and often seriously disabling condition that affects industry in all countries. Low back injuries are a major industrial cause of disability in the United States, with 2% of the workforce incurring back injuries each year.¹ Back injuries are the most expensive health care problem for the 30 to 50-year-old age group and are the leading cause of disability in the United States for persons younger than 45 years.² Each year, 15% to 20% of the US population experiences back problems.² The total cost to industry that results from low back pain was estimated to be between 26.8 billion and 56 billion dollars in 1988.³ Strategies to improve prevention of back injuries in the workplace are therefore an important public health issue.

Factors associated with work-related low back injuries include demographic characteristics of the worker, such as age and sex, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

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