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Low back pain in physical education teachers

Apostolos Stergioulas1, Dimitrios K Filippou, Argiro Triga

  • 1Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Lab of Functional Anatomy and Sports Medicine, Athens, Greece.

Folia Medica
|April 12, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Physical education teachers (PET) in Athens experience high rates of low back pain (LBP), with 63% prevalence. Key risk factors include lack of personal training, lifting gym equipment, and extensive teaching hours.

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