A new fellowship program sponsored by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will fund research into low-back pain among truck drivers, ACOEM announced last week.
ACOEM said Dr. Eric M. Wood is the inaugural grant recipient of the new Medical Fellow Research Program. Wood's research will include performing a cross-sectional study of 200 commercial motor vehicle drivers from several large trucking firms to investigate risk factors for low back pain and impairment potentially related to treatment and medic...
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