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Back Pain Prevention

Researchers from Diakonhjemmet Hospital detail new studies and findings in the area of back pain prevention

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 22nd, 2007

Scientists discuss in "What mediates the inverse association between education and occupational disability from back pain'--A prospective cohort study from the Nord-Trøndelag health study in Norway" new findings in back pain. "Low education is consistently associated with an increased risk of back pain disability, but the underlying mechanisms for this relationship are poorly understood. In a seven-year prospective observational study of 38,426 employed men and women between 25 and 59 years in Norway, we investigated to what extent occupational class, working conditions and individual lifestyle mediated the effect of formal education on disability pensioning from back pain," scientists in...

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