Lbp In Nursing

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The risk factors of LBP is not fully understood but is assumed to be of multi-factorial origin, indicating that individual, physical and psychosocial factors can contribute to their occurrence and persistence of LBP on nursing populations (6, 14). Reasons for this include both extrinsic and intrinsic risk factors that are relevant to nursing profession. Extrinsic factors include environmental and physical factors, where as intrinsic factors provide for personal and ergonomic risk factors (10). Different epidemiological studies have been done to identify and relate possible risk factors to the occurrence of LBP among nursing staffs. They found that individual factors such as age, gender, educational level, body mass index, and psychosocial