Assistant Professor Jay Kim’s recent paper, published in the latest issue of Annals of Work Exposures and Health, has been selected as the editor’s choice. “A randomized controlled trial of a truck seat intervention: Part 2 – Associations between whole-body vibration exposures and health outcomes” represents the first randomized controlled trial that showed that reducing whole-body vibration exposure improved low back pain and other musculoskeletal health outcomes among professional truck drivers. This study showed that the intervention group who received innovative, electromagnetic, active-suspension seats experienced a 35 percent reduction in their low back pain compared to baseline measures, whereas the control group who received industry standard, passive air-suspension seats experienced no reduction in low back pain.
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