Effect of muscular fatigue on the cumulative lumbar damage during repetitive lifting task: a comparative study of damage calculation methods.

Several methods have been put forward to quantify cumulative loads; however, limited evidence exists as to the subsequent damages and the role of muscular fatigue. The present study assessed whether muscular fatigue could affect cumulative damage imposed on the L5–S1 joint. Trunk muscle electromyogr...

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Publicado en:Ergonomics Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 566 - 582
Autores principales: Kazemi, Zeinab, Arjmand, Navid, Mazloumi, Adel, Karimi, Zanyar, Keihani, Ahmadreza, Ghasemi, Mohammad Sadegh
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2024
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          Kazemi, Zeinab
          Arjmand, Navid
          Mazloumi, Adel
          Karimi, Zanyar
          Keihani, Ahmadreza
          Ghasemi, Mohammad Sadegh
        affil: Department of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
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          Muscle Fatigue
          Lumbar Vertebrae Pathology
          Lifting
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Kinematics
          Human
          Male
          Comparative Studies
          Electromyography
          In Vivo Studies
          Analysis of Variance
          Post Hoc Analysis
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      ab: Several methods have been put forward to quantify cumulative loads; however, limited evidence exists as to the subsequent damages and the role of muscular fatigue. The present study assessed whether muscular fatigue could affect cumulative damage imposed on the L5–S1 joint. Trunk muscle electromyographic (EMG) activities and kinematics/kinetics of 18 healthy male individuals were evaluated during a simulated repetitive lifting task. A traditional EMG-assisted model of the lumbar spine was modified to account for the effect of erector spinae fatigue. L5–S1 compressive loads for each lifting cycle were estimated based on varying (i.e. actual), fatigue-modified, and constant Gain factors. The corresponding damages were integrated to calculate the cumulative damage. Moreover, the damage calculated for one lifting cycle was multiplied by the lifting frequency, as the traditional approach. Compressive loads and the damages obtained through the fatigue-modified model were predicted in close agreement with the actual values. Similarly, the difference between actual damages and those driven by the traditional approach was not statistically significant (p = 0.219). However, damages based on a constant Gain factor were significantly greater than those based on the actual (p = 0.012), fatigue-modified (p = 0.017), and traditional (p = 0.007) approaches. Practitioner summary: In this study, we managed to include the effect of muscular fatigue on cumulative lumbar damage calculations. Including the effect of muscular fatigue leads to an accurate estimation of cumulative damages while eliminating computational complexity. However, using the traditional approach also appears to provide acceptable estimates for ergonomic assessments.
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