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  -