The use of hand-held vibrating tools may lead to hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS), a condition with vascular, neurological and musculoskeletal symptoms. Vibrating tools are used in several occupations in which women can be found, e.g. by metaland wood workers, drivers, and dental personnel. The risk of women developing HAVS is hard to estimate, as little research has been done on women expose...

The present study has established equal sensation curves for steering wheel hand-arm rotational vibration. Psychophysical response tests of 20 participants were performed in a steering wheel rotational vibration simulator using the category-ratio Borg CR10 scale procedure for direct estimation of perceived vibration intensity. The test stimuli used were sinusoidal vibrations at 22 third octave ...

The foresters workers are especially exposed to hand-arm transmitted vibrations. These vibrations can cause the complex of vascular, neurological and musculoskeletal disorders, collectively named hand-arm vibration syndrome. Among these, the most common disorder is the vibration-induced white finger. The group exposed to vibration included: 4 hand saws cutters, 5 electric saws cutters, 3 tracto...

Exposure to vibration transmitted to the hands and arms may increase the risk of developing chronic disorders. Current ISO standards regarding exposure are based in part upon assumptions regarding the relationship between threshold measurements and subjective experiences of vibration at higher intensity levels. This study investigated this relationship by comparing absolute threshold levels at ...

Upper limb pain and disability are common problems, especially among working populations. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate peripheral nerve function in the upper limb by nerve conduction test and vibration threshold test in working populations including female computer users (n = 82), hand-arm vibrationexposed male manual workers (n = 116), and female workers with chronic diffu...

A methodology for measuring the vibration energy absorbed into the fingers and the palm exposed to vibration is proposed to study the distribution of the vibration energy absorption (VEA) in the fingers-hand-arm system and to explore its potential association with vibration-induced white finger (VWF). The study involved 12 adult male subjects, constant-velocity sinusoidal excitations at 10 diff...

This paper provides an overview of the exposure-response relationship for the vascular component of the hand-arm vibration syndrome, called vibration-induced white finger (VWF). Over the past two decades, several epidemiological studies have shown a poor agreement between the risk for VWF observed in various occupational groups and that predicted by models included in annexes to International S...

BACKGROUND Hand-arm vibration exposure may cause hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) including sensorineural disturbances. AIMS To investigate which factors had the strongest impact on work ability in vibration-exposed workers. METHODS A cross-sectional study in which vibration-exposed workers referred to a department of occupational and environmental medicine were compared with a randomized...