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Conclusions. MRI degenerative findings were modestly, but clearly associated with reporting of severe upper or mid back pain, with the association being somewhat less clear for back pain frequency and absent for 1-year prevalence of pain regardless of severity or frequency. The findings suggest a greater role for structural, degenerative...

Conclusions Multidisciplinary intervention seemed more effective than brief intervention in subgroups of patients with low job satisfaction, no influence on work planning and feeling at risk of losing their jobs due to their sick leave as compared with subgroups not fulfilling these criteria.
Subgroup analyses on return to work in sick-listed employees...

The overall objective was to evaluate the predictive validity of a subgroup classification based on the Swedish version of the MPI, the MPI-S, among gainfully employed workers with neck pain (NP) and/or low back pain (LBP) during a follow-up period of 18 and 36 months.
Conclusions The present study shows that this...

Conclusion: Future research and workplace interventions for the prevention of MSD need to consider WLC as an important stressor, and the MSD risk factor identified in this study.
Work-life Conflict and Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Cross-sectional Study of an Unexplored Association Oliver Hämmig; Michaela Knecht; Thomas Läubli; Georg F Bauer BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 2011;12...