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Charting back pain
03 December 2005
Charting back pain
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There is already enough evidence around, from surveys organised by professional statistical experts, to show that back pain is a major problem for women in the industrial sectors where Usdaw organises
Why body mapping?
- Body mapping was deliberately chosen as a technique to explore all these issues for a number of reasons:
- It has been proven to be a technique that draws on the direct experience of the workers themselves.
- It helps workers to develop an understanding of the shared risk-factors in the work they do.
- It gives workers a voice to identify shared experience and to begin to develop practical solutions that can be applied in the workplace.
It is hoped that using a body mapping approach will mean that women members who take part will be more usefully engaged rather than being passive statistics in a report. As a result we might gain more insight into why it is that so many women in so-called 'light' work do suffer from back pain and other musculoskeletal injuries
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