Lumbar protection and lumbago prevention for the army drivers worked in plateau
- VernacularTitle:高原汽车部队驾驶员腰椎的保护和腰痛的防治
- Author:
Hong YU
;
Lihua HE
;
Wenwen WU
;
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
altitude;
automobile driving;
military personnel;
lumbar vertebrae;
low back pain
- From:
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army
2001;0(08):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the long-term protective effects of the waistband onto lumbar spins.Based on the practical situation,to search for some effective and convenient methods,such as wearing waistband and mutual massage,to prevent from lumbago for the army drivers worked in plateau.Methods 372 army drivers,young males,healthy and all worked in plateau,ware involved as the treatment group in the present study.Another 545 army drivers with the similar physical qualities,also worked in plateau,were selected as the control group.For the treatment group,a kind of special waistband was employed for the drivers,and mutual massage on hack of each other was performed among them;while in control group the army drivers were given no measures for lumbar protection and lumbago pre- vention.All the drivers in the both groups ware in normal driving conditions.The therapeutic effects of the waistband and the lumbago symptoms were investigated by epidemiologic survey 16 months later,Results The epidemiologic survey results showed that the incidence of lumbago in the drivers of control group(72.8%)was significantly higher than that in the treatment group(30.9%,P
