TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bontrup, Carolin
A1  - Taylor, William R.
A1  - Fliesser, Michael
A1  - Visscher, Rosa
A1  - Green, Tamara
A1  - Wippert, Pia-Maria
A1  - Zemp, Roland
T1  - Low back pain and its relationship with sitting behaviour among sedentary office workers
JF  - Applied ergonomics : human factors in technology and society
N2  - The relationships between sedentary lifestyle, sitting behaviour, and low back pain (LBP) remain controversial. In this study, we investigated the relationship between back pain and occupational sitting habits in 64 call-centre employees. A textile pressure mat was used to evaluate and parameterise sitting behaviour over a total of 400 h, while pain questionnaires evaluated acute and chronic LBP. Seventy-five percent of the participants reported some level of either chronic or acute back pain. Individuals with chronic LBP demonstrated a possible trend (t-test not significant) towards more static sitting behaviour compared to their pain-free counterparts. Furthermore, a greater association was found between sitting behaviour and chronic LBP than for acute pain/disability, which is plausibly due to a greater awareness of pain-free sitting positions in individuals with chronic pain compared to those affected by acute pain.
KW  - Office chair
KW  - Pressure distribution
KW  - Low back pain
KW  - Sitting behaviour
KW  - Dynamic sitting
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2019.102894
SN  - 0003-6870
SN  - 1872-9126
VL  - 81
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zemp, Roland
A1  - Fliesser, Michael
A1  - Wippert, Pia-Maria
A1  - Taylor, William R.
A1  - Lorenzetti, Silvio
T1  - Occupational sitting behaviour and its relationship with back pain - A pilot study
JF  - Applied ergonomics : human factors in technology and society
N2  - Nowadays, working in an office environment is ubiquitous. At the same time, progressively more people suffer from occupational musculoskeletal disorders. Therefore, the aim of this pilot study was to analyse the influence of back pain on sitting behaviour in the office environment. A textile pressure mat (64-sensor-matrix) placed on the seat pan was used to identify the adopted sitting positions of 20 office workers by means of random forest classification. Additionally, two standardised questionnaires (Korff, BPI) were used to assess short and long-term back pain in order to divide the subjects into two groups (with and without back pain). Independent t-test indicated that subjects who registered back pain within the last 24 h showed a clear trend towards a more static sitting behaviour. Therefore, the developed sensor system has successfully been introduced to characterise and compare sitting behaviour of subjects with and without back pain. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licensesiby-nc-nd/4.0/).
KW  - Office chair
KW  - Pressure distribution
KW  - Musculoskeletal disorders
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2016.03.007
SN  - 0003-6870
SN  - 1872-9126
VL  - 56
SP  - 84
EP  - 91
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -