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Push-Pull Study: Current Guidelines Don’t Reflect How People Use Carts In Real-Life Situations

Caster Connection collaborated with the Spine Research Institute at The Ohio State University, in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, discovering the importance of replicating authentic movement for injury prevention in push/pull testing.

Posted: March 20, 2020

According the study's summary, the results reveal that many practitioners are more than likely putting workers at risk for a lower back injury because of non-real-world measurements.

Caster Connection collaborated with the Spine Research Institute at The Ohio State University, in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, who together, discovered the importance of replicating authentic movement for injury prevention in push/pull testing.

Highlights from the study, noted in a downloadable infographic, include:

In order to be accurate for real-life situations, acceleration in testing should be much higher than ISO guidelines advise
Workers are injuring themselves more quickly than guidelines suggest and before they even realize it
Current guidelines do not reflect how people are using carts in real-life situations
The force required to push a cart differs from the force required to pull a cart and people don’t typically test pulling

Early findings: