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Back disorders and lumbar load in nursing staff in geriatric care: a comparison of home-based care and nursing homes

Kathrin Kromark¹^*, Madeleine Dulon¹, Barbara-Beate Beck² and Albert Nienhaus¹

¹ Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare Services, Pappellallee 35/37, 22089 Hamburg, Germany

² Forum fBB, Moränenweg 7, 22143 Hamburg, Germany

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Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009, 4:33 doi:10.1186/1745-6673-4-33

Published: 10 December 2009

Additional file 1:

Diagnostic procedure of orthopaedic examination. Scheme for the orthopaedic examination performed in this study according to Grifka [19].

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