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Training and Manual Handling
Published in M.M. Ayoub, Anil Mital, Manual Materials Handling, 2020
As noted, programme content varies considerably from one back school to another. Some programmes incorporate intensive physical therapy administered by physiotherapists trained in manual therapy. The programme described was developed by Cyriax (1959), Kaltenborn (1975) and Lewit (1977). The initial step in such therapy is diagnosis via examination of the spine while standing, sitting, lying prone, supine and in the lateral position. The spine is examined through a series of standard tests for evidence of scoliosis, lateral deviations, hyper- and hypomobility. Based on the diagnosis, a specific treatment regimen is prescribed. Back injury diagnosis and their related therapy regimens are summarized in Table 8.2.
A bibliometric analysis of occupational low back pain studies from 2000 to 2020
Published in Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2022
Fu Guo, Li Liu, Wei Lv, Fengxiang Li, Vincent G. Duffy
The top 10 fruitful journals in descending order of the number of documents among all 767 journals and proceedings are listed in Table 1. The top 10 journals account for 29.61% of the total 4127 articles. As shown in Table 1, most of the journals are in the field of medicine or ergonomics, but there are no doubt numerous articles from the field of rehabilitation all receive high total local citation score (TLCS) and total global citation score (TGCS), supporting the idea that research on OLBP has become increasingly important in recent years. Other noteworthy journals are not listed in the table. For instance, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, European Spine Journal, and Pain also manifest excellent performance in TLCS and TGCS. Journals like Physical Therapy and Manual Therapy have a close relationship with OLBP because musculoskeletal therapeutics, interventions, management of musculoskeletal disorders, and therapeutic processes are beneficial for the treatment of OLBP and helping workers return to work.