Leon M Straker

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Top papers

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1 A comparison of symptomatic and asymptomatic office workers performing monotonous keyboard work--2: neck and shoulder kinematics. Man Ther 2005 2.15
2 Health literacy and beliefs among a community cohort with and without chronic low back pain. Pain 2010 1.66
3 A comparison of symptomatic and asymptomatic office workers performing monotonous keyboard work--1: neck and shoulder muscle recruitment patterns. Man Ther 2005 1.64
4 Thoracic spine pain in the general population: prevalence, incidence and associated factors in children, adolescents and adults. A systematic review. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2009 1.14
5 Prevalence and associated factors for thoracic spine pain in the adult working population: a literature review. J Occup Health 2009 1.06
6 Adolescents just do not know what they want: a qualitative study to describe obese adolescents' experiences of text messaging to support behavior change maintenance post intervention. J Med Internet Res 2014 1.03
7 Examining the low, high and range measures of muscle activity amplitudes in symptomatic and asymptomatic computer users performing typing and mousing tasks. Eur J Appl Physiol 2009 1.02
8 Individuals with chronic low back pain have greater difficulty in engaging in positive lifestyle behaviours than those without back pain: an assessment of health literacy. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2011 0.95
9 Low back pain in 17 year olds has substantial impact and represents an important public health disorder: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 2012 0.90
10 Disabling chronic low back pain as an iatrogenic disorder: a qualitative study in Aboriginal Australians. BMJ Open 2013 0.89
11 A detailed characterisation of pain, disability, physical and psychological features of a small group of adolescents with non-specific chronic low back pain. Man Ther 2010 0.89
12 During computing tasks symptomatic female office workers demonstrate a trend towards higher cervical postural muscle load than asymptomatic office workers: an experimental study. Aust J Physiother 2009 0.89
13 Trajectories of childhood body mass index are associated with adolescent sagittal standing posture. Int J Pediatr Obes 2010 0.88
14 Lumbar spine repositioning sense in adolescents with and without non-specific chronic low back pain--an analysis based on sub-classification and spinal regions. Man Ther 2013 0.86
15 Sitting postures and trunk muscle activity in adolescents with and without nonspecific chronic low back pain: an analysis based on subclassification. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2010 0.86
16 Patterning of children's sedentary time at and away from school. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2013 0.84
17 Association of biopsychosocial factors with degree of slump in sitting posture and self-report of back pain in adolescents: a cross-sectional study. Phys Ther 2011 0.84
18 Back and neck pain are related to mental health problems in adolescence. BMC Public Health 2011 0.83
19 Rationale, design and methods for a randomised and controlled trial to evaluate "Animal Fun"--a program designed to enhance physical and mental health in young children. BMC Pediatr 2010 0.82
20 Neck/shoulder pain in adolescents is not related to the level or nature of self-reported physical activity or type of sedentary activity in an Australian pregnancy cohort. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2009 0.80
21 Carer experience of back pain is associated with adolescent back pain experience even when controlling for other carer and family factors. Clin J Pain 2008 0.79
22 Adolescent drug use, psychosocial functioning and spinal pain. J Health Psychol 2011 0.79
23 An exploration of the relationship between back muscle endurance and familial, physical, lifestyle, and psychosocial factors in adolescents and young adults. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2011 0.78
24 Chronic low back pain is associated with reduced vertebral bone mineral measures in community-dwelling adults. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2012 0.78
25 Organized Sport Trajectories from Childhood to Adolescence and Health Associations. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2016 0.78
26 Thoracic spine pain in youth: should we be concerned? Spine J 2009 0.78
27 An exploration of familial associations in spinal posture defined using a clinical grouping method. Man Ther 2011 0.78
28 Validity of an automated algorithm to identify waking and in-bed wear time in hip-worn accelerometer data collected with a 24 h wear protocol in young adults. Physiol Meas 2016 0.77
29 Organizational-Level Strategies With or Without an Activity Tracker to Reduce Office Workers' Sitting Time: Rationale and Study Design of a Pilot Cluster-Randomized Trial. JMIR Res Protoc 2016 0.76
30 Spinal pain and nutrition in adolescents--an exploratory cross-sectional study. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2010 0.76
31 Fitness, motor competence and body composition as correlates of adolescent neck/shoulder pain: an exploratory cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 2008 0.76
32 Exploration of the Mechanisms of Change in Constructs From Self-Determination Theory and Quality of Life During a Multidisciplinary Family-Based Intervention for Overweight Adolescents. J Sport Exerc Psychol 2016 0.76
33 Bidirectional relationships between cigarette use and spinal pain in adolescents accounting for psychosocial functioning. Br J Health Psychol 2013 0.76
34 Effects of muscle strength and endurance on blood pressure and related cardiometabolic risk factors from childhood to adolescence. J Hypertens 2016 0.75
35 Biering-Sorensen test performance of Japanese young males: comparison with other ethnicities and relationship to electromyography, near-infrared spectroscopy and exertion ratings. Ergonomics 2011 0.75
36 Comparison of Compliance and Intervention Outcomes Between Hip- and Wrist-Worn Accelerometers During a Randomized Crossover Trial of an Active Video Games Intervention in Children. J Phys Act Health 2016 0.75