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Occupational Factors and German Work-Related Disease 2108

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Berufsbedingte Erkrankungen der Lendenwirbelsäule

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Low back pain (LBP) of occupational origin has reached epidemic proportions. It is a great burden both to industry and the medical community. The magnitude of the problem has been assessed by epidemiologic methods but it is important to note that the epidemiologic research on LBP has been hampered by methodological problems of definition, classification, diagnosis, and in quantifying physical exposures of etiologic importance.

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Pope, M.H. (1998). Occupational Factors and German Work-Related Disease 2108. In: Wolter, D., Seide, K. (eds) Berufsbedingte Erkrankungen der Lendenwirbelsäule. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72235-6_16

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