Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) lurk at every turn in the garden path

One former associate, Steven Casey, Ph.D.,CPE, remembers Dr. Meister as

Low lifters, stackers, telenecks, order pickers, reach trucks and their cousins in the forklift family tree are rolling hazards. They can crush operators, strike nearby workers and collide with moving or stationary objects.

Repetitive tasks and heavy lifting performed at work in 1984 had an inverse relationship to the development of carpal tunnel syndrome over the subsequent 17 years in a prospective study.

Patients can

The week brought two news items that promise to give hospital administrators, ergonomists and others pause for thought.

Research Summary: Distal upper extremity neuropathy was prevalent among 13 percent of engineers who perform computer activities at least 15 hours per week in a cross-sectional study by Conlon and Rempel.

With freezing winds whipping their faces, the group, made up of injured workers, trade unionists, occupational health and safety advocates and others, shouted for the Ontario government to stand up, open their ears and listen to the problems of the people.

The astronauts and cosmonauts who venture to Mars and beyond can expect a bombardment of risk factors. A review of the literature on the preparations for exploring outer space makes it clear that the race to distant parts of the Universe will be won by the agency with the best grasp of a host of intangible endurance factors.