Lumbar posture and muscular activity while sitting during office work.

Purpose: Field study, cross-sectional study to measure the posture and sEMG of the lumbar spine during office work for a better understanding of the lumbar spine within such conditions.

Scope: There is high incidence of low back pain in office workers. Currently there is little information about lumbar posture and the activity of lumbar muscles during extended office work.

Pain relief due to physiotherapy doesn't change the motor function of the shoulder.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of different training methods in physiotherapy on pain relief and change in proprioception and kinesthesia of the shoulder. Further, the connections between pain relief and change in motor function of the shoulder will be investigated.

Design: Randomised trial.

Muscular activation patterns of healthy persons and low back pain patients performing a functional capacity evaluation test.

The results of most reported studies show differences between the muscular activity of low back pain patients and healthy subjects, but the focus has usually been on trunk muscles only, and they have not involved work-related tests or exercises. The reintegration of chronic low back pain patients to job market is a common problem. Therefore assessment systems like the functional capacity evaluation (FCE) according to Isernhagen [S.