The aim of this paper is to examine from an integrative approach to what extent occupational stressors when in combination with other variables that have accredited their explicative value in accounting for teacher distress in other domains (personal, psychosocial and outside the occupational sphere) contribute to predicting and/or explaining the different components of burnout. The sample cons...

Korea has a short history in research on occupational health like as short history of industrialization. During last four decades, however, Korea has experienced what developed countries have experienced for more than a hundred year. Research on occupational health in Korea has also drastically developed. Since industrialization in 1970s, many workers were exposed to hazardous working environme...

how to cite this article: noohi s, amirsalari s. history, studies and specific uses of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) in treating epilepsy. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):1-8.   abstract objective in this study, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) and its specific use for treating epilepsy were carefully scrutinized.   materials & methods target res...

background and aim: tinnitus is a distressing symptom for which few treatments exist. low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) of the temporal cortex has been proposed as a treatment for chronic tinnitus. this study determined relationship between psychoacoustic parameters such as loudness and frequency of tinnitus and outcome with rtms treatment. methods: twenty six pa...

The Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) or Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) are labor misfortunes that affect thousands of workers in Brazil, capable causing irreversible sequelae, depending on the severity accident and conditions which work is performed. In this context, research aims to conduct a quantitative descriptive study evaluate most incident cases work-related musculoskeletal...

OBJECTIVES To systematically evaluate the available evidence on occupational risk factors of shoulder pain. METHODS Relevant reports were identified by a systematic search of Medline, Embase, Psychlit, Cinahl, and Current Contents. The quality of the methods of all selected publications was assessed by two independent reviewers using a standardised checklist. Details were extracted on the stu...

Tarsal tunnel syndrome characterises a complex of symptoms that result from compression of the posterior tibial nerve as it passes through the fibro-osseus tunnel located beneath the flexor retinaculum on the medial aspect of the ankle.' The syndrome has been described in several case reports and review articles24 since Keck's5 and Lam's6 original case reports in 1962. Whereas other nerve entra...