Bone and Joint Institute
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Journal
Rehabilitation Research and Practice
Volume
2020
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1155/2020/1942513
Abstract
© 2020 Goris Nazari et al. Introduction. The unique demands of firefighting results in acute, recurrent, or chronic pain complications. We aimed to describe the percentage distribution of number and location of painful sites among FFs and determine whether work limitations differed based on the number or location of painful sites, age, and/or sex. Methods. About 325 firefighters completed a work limitation questionnaire (WLQ-26) and a checklist to indicate painful regions of the body using either a paper format or an online survey. A one-way ANOVA was employed to analyze the transformed work limitation scores; this was a two-sided test with a significance level of 45 years of age experienced more physical work limitations than FFs≤45years (mean difference: 0.74/10; 95% CI.19-1.29; p=0.008). Conclusions. The majority of firefighters reported having at least one painful site and indicated the spine as the most common painful location. Age, the number of painful sites, and location of pain were identified as a potential contributor to physical/mental and work output limitations.
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Copyright © 2020 Goris Nazari et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article was originally published as:
Goris Nazari, Temitope A. Osifeso, Joy C. MacDermid, "Distribution of Number, Location of Pain and Comorbidities, and Determinants of Work Limitations among Firefighters", Rehabilitation Research and Practice, vol. 2020, Article ID 1942513, 9 pages, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1942513