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The measurement and recording of the position of the spine during work could lead to information which will contribute to the reduction in injuries of the spine. Seventy nine percent of manual handling injuries are injuries to the lower back (Snook, 1978). In the United States, there are 400,000 manual materials handling back injuries per year (Ayoub et al., 1979). The prevalence of low back injuries compared with other segments along the spine could be a result of the displacement of the spine from the normal, physiological null position of the upright relaxed worker. Therefore, considerable attention ought to be directed to the role of spinal displacement during manual materials handling.
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Price, D.L. (1981). Measurements of Spine Location During Lifting. In: Moraal, J., Kraiss, KF. (eds) Manned Systems Design. NATO Conference Series, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3306-7_17
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