Evaluation of potential risks of musculoskeletal disorders in real workstations is challenging as the environment is cluttered, which makes it difficult to correctly assess the pose of a worker. Being marker-free and calibration-free, Microsoft Kinect is a promising device to assess these poses, but it can deliver unreliable poses especially when occlusions occur. To overcome this problem, we p...

BACKGROUND There are very few observational methods for analysis of biomechanical exposure available in Brazilian-Portuguese. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to cross-culturally adapt and test the measurement properties of the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) and Strain Index (SI). METHODS The cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties test were established according to Beaton et al....

OBJECTIVE "Work-related musculoskeletal disorders" (WMSDs) is a term used to describe a painful or disabling injury to the muscles, tendons or nerves caused or aggravated by work. WMSDs are preventable or at least can be delayed. The aim of this study to determine the work related musculo-skeletal disorders and risk levels of the these factory workers. STUDY DESIGN Cross sectional study. MA...

Information of hotel cleaners’ musculoskeletal pain can be acquired by subjective survey on patients. The ultrasonic waves and X-ray examination can reveal the parts of muscular trauma, bones and joints, and fracture. Medical instruments can recognize the situation musculoskeletal pain and related treatment and recovery will be offered. However, after pain is relieved, hotel cleaners often expe...

Background and Objectives: Working in incorrect posion has put this job in the 12th rank for musculoskeletal disorders of the neck, back, and upper limb among Sallers. The present study aimed to assess the labor situation  and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among chain grocery store workers. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 31 grocery workers in various p...

This study was performed among workers of an Iranian pharmaceutical industry with the aiming to determine WRMDs prevalence and exposure assessment of WRMDs risks. In this cross-sectional study, 84 female and male workers randomly selected from five packing operations. Modified Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) was applied to study the prevalence of WRMDs and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment...

The common occupational problem of the workers is musculoskeletal disorders in India. Currently the work is being carried out manually in most of the small scale industries therefore the issues of work related musculoskeletal disorders and injury in different body sites are of top priority. Postural analysis tool using Rapid upper limb assessment (RULA) and Rapid entire body assessment (REBA) w...

Objective: The prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among dentists is high and adversely affects the quality life. In this study, we aimed to evaluate complaints, working postures, risk MSDs dentistry students across different departments. Methods: 180 were divided into six groups according their For evaluation used standardized Nordic questionnaire. postures potentiality evaluated us...