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Nigeria
experienced an industrial transformation which led to
exchange in technological ideas and infrastructural
development that boosted international trade which benefited
greatly the transportation sector. This paper aims at
designing ergonomic prototype to achieve a corrective
functional back lean posture support to avoid low back pain
that results to the collapse of the inter-vertebral disc.
(Slipped disc) The methodology will improve the
sustainability of the inter-vertebral disc (Slipped disc);
it requires the development of ergonomics prototype of back
leaning posture support for motorbike riders which is based
on total “Design Activity Model” DAM. Questionnaire was
administered to workers/motorbike riders in this regard. The
musculoskeletal symptoms of 8,000 bike riders in Nigeria
between the ages of 20 and 60 years of age, with a numerical
figure of 2000 motor-bike riders each from North, South,
East, Western Nigeria, in the public service sector were
assessed by the Questionnaire. One, out of several designed
prototypes will be chosen as the most suitable motorbike
posture support to solving the low back pain in most
motorbike riders in Nigeria from the ages of range 20 to 60
years. This paper focuses on designing and testing of
generated prototypes with an exhaustive utility of important
criteria of product design specification to achieving an
adjustable and movable posture support to enhance high level
of comfortability and health protection particularly in the
lumber areas of bike riders where inter-vertebral disc
easily collapse leading or causing low back pain which is
common within bike riders in Nigeria.
Keywords:
Low back pain, Posture support, Motorbike riders, Slipped
disc, Design
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