A Promising Wearable Solution for the Practical and Accurate Monitoring of Low Back Loading in Manual Material Handling.

ABSTRACT: (1) Background: Low back disorders are a leading cause of missed work and physical disability in manual material handling due to repetitive lumbar loading and overexertion. Ergonomic assessments are often performed to understand and mitigate the risk of musculoskeletal overexertion injuries. Wearable sensor solutions for monitoring low back loading have the potential to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of ergonomic assessments and to expand opportunities for the personalized, continuous monitoring of overexertion injury risk. However, existing wearable solutions using a single inertial measurement unit (IMU) are limited in how accurately they can estimate back loading when objects of varying mass are handled, and alternative solutions in the scientific literature require so ma

SUBMITTER: Matijevich ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7825414 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature