Distribution of Number, Location of Pain and Comorbidities, and Determinants of Work Limitations among Firefighters

Table 5

Effect of area of body pain and number of painful sites on work limitation in FFs.

Work limitation scores	Number of painful sites			Body location
	One painful site	Two painful sites	Three or more painful sites	Upper extremity	Lower	Spine
Physical limitations	0.6 (-0.3-1.6)	0.7 (-0.2-1.7)	1.0 (0.1-1.9)	0.8 (-0.6-2.2)	0.4 (-0.8-1.7)	0.8 (0.1-1.6)
Mental limitations	0.5 (-0.4-1.5)	1.1 (0.3-2.0)	1.2 (0.3-2.0)	1.4 (0.9-2.7)	0.9 (-0.3-2.0)	0.9 (0.2-1.6)
Time limitations	0.6 (-0.4-1.5)	0.7 (-0.2-1.6)	0.7 (-0.2-1.5)	1.3 (-0.1-2.6)	0.5 (-0.7-1.7)	0.6 (-0.1-1.3)
Output limitation	0.9 (-0.03-1.9)	0.8 (-0.1-1.8)	0.8 (-0.1-1.7)	1.0 (-0.4-2.5)	0.9 (-0.4-2.1)	0.8 (0.1-1.6)

Reference group: having no region or number of painful sites. Significant at .