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Proper manual handling techniques to prevent low back pain, a Cochrane Systematic Review

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Verbeek, Jos H. | Martimo, Kari-Pekka | Kuijer, P. Paul F.M. | Karppinen, Jaro | Viikari-Juntura, Eira | Takala, Esa-Pekka

Affiliations: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, PO Box 310 70701 Kuopio, Finland | Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: p.p.kuijer@amc.nl, Tel no.: +31-20-566-5339

Keywords: prevention, musculoskeletal, lifting, carrying, training

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0455-2299

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 2299-2301, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

Training and provision of assistive devices are considered major interventions to prevent and treat low back pain (LBP) among workers exposed to manual material handling (MMH). To establish the effectiveness of training and provision of assistive devices in preventing and treating LBP an update of a Cochrane literature review was performed to November 2010. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies with a concurrent control group (CCTs) were included. Nine RCTs (20.101 employees) and nine CCTs (1280 employees) were included for prevention: six more than in the previous version. No study on treatment was found. None of the included RCTs and CCTs provided evidence that training and provision of assistive devices prevented LBP when compared to no intervention or another intervention.

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