Is asymmetric upper trapezius muscle activation during work associated with neck pain? A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis

• Markus Koch ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Markus.Koch@stami.no

  Affiliation Research Group for Work Psychology and Physiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4555-6606

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• Xuelong Fan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-5717

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• Lars Louis Andersen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Musculoskeletal Disorders and Physical Workload, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Markus Due Jacobsen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Musculoskeletal Disorders and Physical Workload, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Mikael Forsman,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Ergonomics, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Gisela Sjøgaard,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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• Karen Søgaard,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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• Christoph Anders,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Motor Research, Pathophysiology and Biomechanics, Experimental Trauma Surgery, Germany

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• Sanna Grydeland,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group for Work Psychology and Physiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Lars-Kristian Lunde

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group for Work Psychology and Physiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway

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