Quebec Study: Women Reported More Leg Pain Than Men

A study of 7,757 Quebec workers found that significantly more women suffered leg pain than their male counterparts, and concluded that increasing workers' freedom to sit down could reduce the incidence of lower body pain.The American Journal of Public Health published a study in its April 2008 edition named "Distal Lower-Extremity Pain and Work Postures in the Quebec Population," which analyzed the opinions of 7,757 Quebec workers from a 1998 public health survey.The study found that 9.4% of the workers reported "significant ankle or foot pain," and that 6.4% reported lower leg or calf pai...