This descriptive study focused on the ergonomic risk assessment of salt workers in Occidental Mindoro to determine which work activities posed risks farmworkers and assess relationship between profile variables total pain body parts experienced by workers. The Nordic Questionnaire was used detect symptoms composed 28 multiple choice questions structured into two well-differentiated parts; first...

The ergonomic assessment of adopted working postures is essential for avoiding musculoskeletal risk factors in manufacturing contexts. Several observational methods based on external analyst observations are available; however, they relatively subjective and suffer low repeatability. Over the past decade, digitalization this has received high research interest. Robotic applications have potenti...

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are the main work-related problems in construction sites around world. Awkward working posture is mainly responsible for occupational musculoskeletal injuries. The objectives of research were to analyse postures workers and assess level risk injury their work. Four categories collected from elementary works as a form still pictures site. Two assessment tools RUL...

Thirty male volunteers participated in a study evaluating the effect of workspace envelope (work height and reach distance) and handle orientation on grip force capacity. Maximum voluntary power grip exertions were recorded using instrumented tool handles under three conditions: a pistol grip tool handle oriented horizontally and vertically and a right angle tool handle oriented horizontally. S...

2011;32;e95 Pediatrics in Review Catherine Kier, Rula Balluz, Vikash Modi and Latha Chandran Visual Diagnosis : Respiratory Distress: A Great Masquerader http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/32/10/e95 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/suppl/2011/09/09/32...

Introduction: dentists often have to adopt awkward, asymmetric, static postures and tilt their heads forward while working. If this situation continues for a long time every day, it leads excessive pressure on the involved muscles joints causes symptoms such as pain discomfort, especially in neck, shoulders, back, waist. Considering importance of prevention, early treatment musculoskeletal diso...