Ergonomic evaluations, health care practitioner advice regarding re-injury prevention, and employer offering/employee accepting workplace accommodations were significant predictors of fewer time-loss days among employees with disabling work-related musculoskeletal disorders according to a 2005 prospective, cohort study involving over 400 workers.

Authors Xu, Mirka and Hsiang found surprising results when comparing lifting characteristics between obese, as defined by Body Mass Index (BMI), and non-obese individuals. Do obese people really lift with greater rotational velocity, rotational acceleration, sagittal velocity and sagittal acceleration compared to normal sized individuals, or are the results skewed by the BMI definition?

A study performed by Lee, McLoone and Dennerlein, found that computer users often exhibited finger extension postures, including lifting fingers completely off the mouse, when operating a commonly used two-button style mouse.