[Occupational low back pain in Tunisia].

Background: In Tunisia, eight researches works, dealing with low back trauma (LBT), have been achieved in some occupational sector activities and only 2 of them have been published.

Aim: To synthesize data provided by these 8 works realized between 1998 and 2007, in order to estimate the disorder magnitude and to describe LBT victims profile in Tunisia.

Methods: The global population of study is made of 1357 LBT victims (977 belonging to the private sector and 380 to the public sector).