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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"back injuries"”.
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Does an individualized back education programme change nurses' knowledge and practice about back injury prevention
Back injury has predominantly been a problem which has affected a large cross-section of nursing staff involved with direct patient care. While back injury prevention has been instituted in hospitals for sometime, the percentage of nurses with back injury remains high. Within a major teaching …
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An investigation of team lifting using psychophysical methods
Lifting is one of the major causes of back injury in the workplace. Often, workers are told to ask for the help of another worker when the load is too great to be lifted alone, yet the effects of these team lifts have not been researched until recently. This experiment investigated some of the …
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Development of a Lumbar Exosuit with Hybrid Active-Passive Support for Healthcare Workers
The prevalence of lower back pain and related injuries is high among healthcare profes- sionals. Nursing involves lifting, shifting, and repositioning patients, and many of these tasks do not allow proper lifting or bending biomechanics, increasing the risk of injury. Although exoskeletons have …
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Occupational health hazards and their effects on the health of nurses at Mankweng Hospital in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Background: Occupational health hazards in hospital setting can be dangerous substances that cause physical or emotional harm to the healthcare workers. Nurses are exposed to job-related health hazards which may include biological, chemical and physical threats while performing their daily …
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The effectiveness of back belts as a control measure for occupational low back pain in a retail hardware chain
… the effect of the mandatory introduction of back belts on the incidence, days lost and cost of occupational low back injuries resulting from manual handling in 11 retail hardware chain. The study was of a non-experimental before-and-after design with all retail employees in Western Australia …
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An Evaluation of Bikram Yoga at Reducing the Level of Back Pain
Low back pain is a significant public health problem and one of the most commonly reported reasons for the use of Complimentary Alternative Medicine. In the U.S. 70% to 80% of the population has experienced at least one episode of back pain sometime in their lives. Healthcare workers, in …
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Balancing efficiencies and tradeoffs in epidemiological field studies : evaluating EMG exposure assessment for low back injury risk factors in heavy industry
… of and evaluate interventions for work-related back injuries, researchers need efficient, accurate occupational exposure assessment methods suitable for large samples. The chapters in this thesis examine critical decisions using electromyography (EMG): How should exposure be measured? For what …
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Identification, Evaluation and Control of Physically Demanding Patient-Handling Tasks in an Acute Care Facility
… among nurses may mask the true impact of these injuries. Nursing staff are consistently among the top 10 occupations at risk for experiencing WMSDs and patient-handling tasks are the precipitating event in the majority of back injuries experienced among nursing staff. Existing research has …
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Maintenance improvement in the petrochemical industry
… Safety and Health in U.S.A (2009), ergonomic injuries are the most common cause of workplace illness and injury in the United States. Back injuries and cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, bursitis and epicondylitis form the majority of non-fatal …
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Occupational hazards and radiation safety in veterinary practice including zoo veterinary practice in Australia
… is available on the number and magnitude of injuries to veterinarians in Australia, the United Kingdom or the United States. Apart from anecdotal accounts and some limited data, most of the available information is on occupational zoonoses, generally well recognized by veterinarians. Other …
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Biomechanical Assessment of Varied Lifting Tasks With and Without Passive Back Support Exoskeletons
Low back pain is the number one cause of disability in the world. It is a well established problem in industry often caused by excessive repetition, awkward postures, and heavy lifting. Back support exoskeletons have increasingly been studied as a solution to this problem. In addition to evaluating …