Anthropometric Characteristics of Korean Farmers in a Sitting Posture

Prevalence and Characteristics of Musculoskeletal Pain in Korean Farmers

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of musculoskeletal pain (MSK) pain in Korean farmers using initial survey data of Farmers' Cohort for Agricultural Work-Related MSK pain (FARM) study. METHODS Farmers (534 females and 479 males; mean age 57.2±7.5 years) who owned or rented a farm and belonged to an agricultural cooperative unit were recruited. Presence of pain for ea...

A Real-Time Sitting Posture Tracking System

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Severity and characteristics of developmental delay can be assessed using variability measures of sitting posture.

PURPOSE We sought to identify measures of variability from sitting postural sway that are significantly different among infants who were developing typically, those who were developmentally delayed or hypotonic, and those who later on had a diagnosis of spastic or athetoid cerebral palsy. METHODS Sixty-five infants were evaluated when they were just developing the ability to sit upright by as...

Anthropometric characteristics of female smallholder farmers of Uganda – Toward design of labor-saving tools

Sub-Saharan African women on small-acreage farms carry a disproportionately higher labor burden, which is one of the main reasons they are unable to produce for both home and the market and realize higher incomes. Labor-saving interventions such as hand-tools are needed to save time and/or increase productivity in, for example, land preparation for crop and animal agriculture, post-harvest proc...

Determination of the venous pressure in the sitting posture.