Treatment for Clients with Cumulative Trauma Disorders

Reinjury prevention follow-through for clients with cumulative trauma disorders.

OBJECTIVES Fifteen subjects with upper extremity work-related cumulative trauma disorders were involved in a quality improvement study to determine their self-reported degree of follow-through with reinjury prevention regimens. The effect of cuing was also studied. METHOD During occupational therapy, subjects were involved in an educational session that focused on recommendations in ergonomic...

Hand wrist cumulative trauma disorders in industry.

A total of 574 active workers from six different industrial sites were categorised into four force repetitive exposure groups. Workers in low force-low repetitive jobs served as an internal comparison population for the three other groups. Videotapes and surface electromyography were used to estimate hand force and repetitiveness. The presence of cumulative trauma disorders (CTD) was determined...

Responsive Integrative Treatment of Clients with PTSD and Trauma-Related Disorders: An Expanded Evidence-Based Model

In this article a practitioner oriented review of the literature on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder is used to construct a phase-based model that can serve as a basis for case formulation and treatment planning. Treatments shown to be efficacious in randomized controlled trials are listed and two discourses about them are contrasted. One calls for therapists to implement treatme...

Ergonomic risk factors for cumulative trauma disorders in VDU operators.

The objectives of this study were to investigate the rate of cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) in the upper body and to describe the associations of such disorders with ergonomic parameters in a group of data entry operators. A total of 173 data entry operators volunteered to take part in the study. Questionnaires were used to investigate their medical history. Diagnoses of CTDs were made with...

The case for cumulative trauma in low back disorders.