caa a22 4500 606211233 CHVBK 20210128101037.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10926-014-9538-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10926-014-9538-1 Low Back Functional Health Status of Patient Handlers [Elektronische Daten] [Sue Ferguson, Dustin Grooms, James Onate, Safdar Khan, William Marras] Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess low back functional health among a group of nurses with a history of low back pain symptoms in a university hospital using a direct measure of low back functional performance and compare to traditional low back disability and pain questionnaires. Methods Fifty-two nurses and patient care associates volunteered for the study. The clinical lumbar motion monitor (LMM) was used to directly measure low back functional performance. The participants performed a series of standard tasks involving trunk flexion and extension at different asymmetries. The LMM measures the motion signature of the participant (range of motion, velocity and acceleration) in all three planes of the body. The clinical LMM evaluation documented objective assessment of low back function normalized for age and gender. The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) was used to evaluate self-reported disability and the McGill Pain Questionnaire visual analog scale assessed pain symptom. Results The average functional performance probability was 0.49 with a standard deviation of 0.29, indicating that on average the functional performance was impaired. The average ODI score was 13.4 with a standard deviation of 11.6. The correlation between the functional performance probability and ODI was 0.046 (not statistically significant). Conclusions The clinical LMM functional performance measure provides a direct measure of trunk function. The low correlation between the ODI and clinical LMM functional performance probability indicates that the direct functional performance measure adds another component to our understanding of low back health or impairment that traditional questionnaires lack. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Low back injury nationallicence Nurses nationallicence Functional performance nationallicence Oswestry Disability Index nationallicence Ferguson Sue Biodynamics Laboratory, Integrated System Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1971 Neil Avenue, 210 Baker Systems, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut Grooms Dustin School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut Onate James School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut Khan Safdar Department of Orthopeadics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut Marras William Biodynamics Laboratory, Integrated System Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1971 Neil Avenue, 210 Baker Systems, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 25/2(2015-06-01), 296-302 1053-0487 25:2<296 2015 25 10926 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-014-9538-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-014-9538-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ferguson Sue Biodynamics Laboratory, Integrated System Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1971 Neil Avenue, 210 Baker Systems, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grooms Dustin School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Onate James School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Khan Safdar Department of Orthopeadics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marras William Biodynamics Laboratory, Integrated System Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1971 Neil Avenue, 210 Baker Systems, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 25/2(2015-06-01), 296-302 1053-0487 25:2<296 2015 25 10926