title: Secretary back syndrome.
abstract: Secretary Back Syndrome, the title appropriate and descriptive, the concept original and useful, describes an intermittent, recurrent, symmetrical low-back pain induced by swivel-chair exposure. The swivel chair, by its very mechanical nature, frequently invites poor posture, causing a symmetrical, recurrent, lumbo-sacral strain. Swivel-chair exposure, transiency and recurrence of low-back pain, i.e. weekend and vacation recovery, physical finding of symmetrical low-back tenderness and spasm, and relatively unremarkable X-ray findings, all serve to support the above stated syndrome. The treatment requires abstinence of swivel-chair exposure, an obvious, to-date, hidden occupational hazard, and a switch to the time-honored stationary chair in order to affect a total and permanent recovery. Secretary Back Syndrome is a valuable diagnostic concept if appropriately suspected and included in the differential diagnosis and treatment of low-back pain.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Wehby
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy