Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are amongst the most common work-related problems throughout the world and India is no exception. MSD risk factors can be an appropriate base for planning and implementing ergonomics intervention programs in the workplace. The present study is focused on identifying the occupational health and safety risks of workers in Indian sawmills. The workers in saw mills ...

BACKGROUND Medical doctors are essential for the German public and occupational health system. They ensure the productivity of German society by enabling people to regain and recover their health. That is why the physicians' health and hence their productivity require special attention. Musculoskeletal disorders have a high prevalence in this work area. As a consequence, movement sequences, ran...

The mechanical strength of human bones has often been investigated in the past. Bone failure is related to musculoskeletal loading, tissue properties, bone metabolism, etc. This is intrinsically a multiscale problem. However, organ-level performance in most cases is investigated as a separate problem, incorporating only part (if any) of the information available at a higher scale (body level) o...

This study aimed to utilize musculoskeletal modelling and simulation to investigate the compressive tibiofemoral force and individual muscle function in obese children. We generated a 3D muscle-driven simulation of eight obese and eight normal-weight boys walking at their self-selected speed. The compressive tibiofemoral force and individual muscle contribution to the support and progression ac...

Patient-specific biomechanical models including patient-specific finite-element (FE) models are considered potentially important tools for providing personalized healthcare to patients with musculoskeletal diseases. A multi-step procedure is often needed to generate a patient-specific FE model. As all involved steps are associated with certain levels of uncertainty, it is important to study how...

Musculoskeletal disorders are among the most costly health care problems facing society today. The scientific literature has indicated that psychosocial factors, individual factors, workplace physical requirements, and workplace organizational factors have been associated with risk. Since musculoskeletal risk is multi-dimensional, the magnitude of risk attributable to various factors can be of ...

The success that banks have had deploying remote deposit capture has been tremendous over the past few years. The ability to decrease manual handling of checks and increases deposit breadth has certainly been a positive in what otherwise has not been the greatest of times in the banking community. However, as with any success along comes scrutiny. Echoes from the halls of Congress of not enough...

Production of nursery crops in the US is accomplished in containerand field-growing conditions, with propagation and seedling-rearing carried out in greenhouses; 11% of the US national farm-product is represented by these crops. Container-grown crops represent 60% of the US market and represent a highly labor-intensive and thus costly segment of ornamental crop production. The USDA, NASA and th...

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A musculoskeletal model was developed to analyze the tensions of knee joint ligaments during walking and understand how they change with changes in muscle forces. The included femur, tibia, patella all components cruciate collateral ligaments, quadriceps, hamstrings gastrocnemius muscles. Inputs were forces, estimated by a static optimization approach, external loads (ground reaction forces mom...