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Proportion of actively working firefighters belonging to different trajectories of radiating and local low back pain in 1996, 1999 and 2009 (n = 360)
| Musculoskeletal pain | Trajectory | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain free | Recovering | New pain | Fluctuating | Chronic | ||||||
| % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | |
| Radiating low back pain | 54 | (148) | 8 | (21) | 21 | (56) | 11 | (30) | 6 | (17) |
| Local low back pain | 41 | (126) | 11 | (33) | 24 | (73) | 12 | (35) | 12 | (36) |
