Associations of back muscle endurance with occupational back muscle activity and spinal loading among subsistence farmers and office workers in Rwanda

• Benjamin E. Sibson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bsibson@g.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8941-6568

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• Alexandra R. Harris,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Andrew K. Yegian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Aimable Uwimana,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Basic Sciences, University of Global Health Equity, Butaro, Rwanda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6453-3760

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• Assuman Nuhu,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Physiotherapy, University of Rwanda, Kigali City, Rwanda

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• Alec Thomas,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Sports Science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7396-9483

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• Dennis E. Anderson,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Advanced Orthopedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Robert M. Ojiambo,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Basic Sciences, University of Global Health Equity, Butaro, Rwanda

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• Daniel E. Lieberman

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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