Cumulative occupational lumbar load and lumbar disc disease--results of a German multi-center case-control study (EPILIFT).

A, Seidler; A, Bergmann; M, Jäger; R, Ellegast; D, Ditchen; G, Elsner; J, Grifka; J, Haerting; F, Hofmann; O, Linhardt; A, Luttmann; M, Michaelis; G, Petereit-Haack; B, Schumann; U, Bolm-Audorff

doi:10.1186/1471-2474-10-48

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Cumulative occupational lumbar load and lumbar disc disease--results of a German multi-center case-control study (EPILIFT).

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Seidler A

Bergmann A

Jäger M

Abstract

Background The to date evidence for a dose-response relationship between physical workload and the development of lumbar disc diseases is limited. We therefore investigated the possible etiologic relevance of cumulative occupational lumbar load to lumbar disc diseases in a multi-center case-control ...

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