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Kee, Dohyung. "Characteristics of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Korea." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 2 (2023): 1024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021024.
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This study aimed to analyze trends for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) from 1996 to 2020 in Korea and to investigate characteristics of WMSDs, including WMSD approval rates, distribution by WMSD names, and the effects of industry type and size, and workers’ age and gender on WMSD occurrence. The data included those obtained from the official yearbooks for industrial accidents published by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and those obtained personally from the Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service. The results showed that although the incidence of WMSDs differed by year, approximately 9500 cases of WMSDs occurred in 2019 and 2020, the incidence rate of WMSDs was approximately 5.0 per 10,000 workers, and the proportions of WMSDs among industrial accidents were almost 9%. Low back pain was the leading cause of WMSDs; WMSDs occupied 9.5–71.5% of total occupational diseases by year and occurred most frequently in the manufacturing industry, followed by construction, transportation/warehouse and communication, and mining industries, and nearly 60% of WMSDs occurred in small business with <50 workers. Among chronic WMSDs, rotator cuff syndrome in the shoulder ranked first, intervertebral disc disorders second, and rotator cuff and tendon injuries third. By body parts, the shoulder was most susceptible to chronic WMSDs, followed by the low back, leg, and elbow/lower arm. The chi-square test and logistic regression analysis showed that industry type and size and workers’ gender and age were significantly associated with WMSD approval. It can be concluded that the WMSD preventive efforts should focus on low back pain and rotator cuff syndrome by WMSD name, manufacturing by industry, small business by industry size, men by gender, and aged workers by age.
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Sirisawasd, Sanpatchaya, Sasitorn Taptagaporn, Chaweewon Boonshuyar, and Poramet Earde. "Interventions commonly used to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders among healthcare workers." Journal of Health Research 32, no. 5 (2018): 371–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhr-08-2018-044.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the prevalence and risk factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) among healthcare workers (HCWs) in order to ascertain the occupation with the highest susceptibility to WMSD in the health sector. This paper will also review the effective interventions which have been used to prevent WMSDs among HCWs. Design/methodology/approach This study is a literature review of 11 papers related to the prevalence and risk factors of WMSDs and 12 papers about the interventions being used to prevent WMSDs among HCWs. The papers were retrieved from respectable databases such as PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar and E-Thesis. Findings Nurses belong to the major group of HCWs who had the highest prevalence of WMSDs compared with other health professionals and other hospital workers. Although there are several interventions being commonly used to prevent WMSD risk factors, some interventions were unsuccessful in the prevention of WMSDs in healthcare tasks. Therefore, it is necessary that future research focuses on the tasks of HCWs that are WMSD risk factors and tries to innovate or redesign ergonomic workstations to prevent those risk factors. Originality/value The expected benefit of this study is to motivate ergonomists to provide appropriate and innovative interventions to ensure health and safety for nurses and other HCWs.
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Kaur, Harpriya, Mike Lampl, James Grosch, et al. "O5A.4 Overexertion related age-specific wmsds claims among construction workers in ohio, USA: 2007–2013." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 76, Suppl 1 (2019): A42.1—A42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem-2019-epi.113.
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BackgroundAs the proportion of older workers in the U.S. increases, understanding the health and safety needs of an aging workforce is critical, especially in the hazardous and physically demanding construction industry. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2016 the rate of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) in construction was 32.7 per 10 000 full-time equivalent workers, which was 11% higher than the rate for all industries combined. The objective of this study was to examine the rate and cost of WMSDs due to overexertion, the leading cause of WMSDs, among construction workers by age group in Ohio using workers’ compensation claims.MethodsOverexertion related WMSDs allowed claims, submitted to Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation (OBWC) by workers in the construction industry for injuries occurring from 2007–2013 were analyzed to compute rates of allowed claims and claim costs by age group. The American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau was used to determine the proportion of construction workers in each age group in Ohio. For this study, age was categorized as 14–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54 and ≥55 years old.ResultsThere were 7434 overexertion related WMSD claims accepted by OBWC for construction workers who were injured due to overexertion in 2007–2013. Workers 35–44 years old experienced the highest claim rate of 7.28 per 1000 for WMSDs due to overexertion. However, the highest mean medical compensation cost for WMSD claims due to overexertion was for construction workers 55 years and older.ConclusionOverexertion-related WMSD claims appear to rise and then fall with age (≥55). There is a need to understand how aging interacts with WMSDs risk factors. Age-specific interventions to reduce WMSDs may help to retain older and skilled workers whose knowledge and experience might otherwise be lost when workers need to leave work because of debilitating WMSDs.
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Cromie, Jean E., Valma J. Robertson, and Margaret O. Best. "Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Culture of Physical Therapy." Physical Therapy 82, no. 5 (2002): 459–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ptj/82.5.459.
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Abstract Background and Purpose. Knowledge, skills, relationships, and attitudes of caring and working hard are all thought to be valued by physical therapists. This article explores how physical therapists see themselves, in light of some of these values, when they experience work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). The article also explores the ways in which these values may compete with each other, and it suggests how this may contribute to the onset of WMSDs and to therapists' behavior following a WMSD. Subjects and Methods. Eighteen therapists who had made a career change after a WMSD participated in interviews that were designed to gain insight into the attitudes and beliefs of therapists who had had a WMSD. Results. Participants did not anticipate WMSDs, and they typically believed their physical therapy knowledge and skills would have prevented WMSDs from occurring. They saw themselves as knowledgeable and caring and indicated that these characteristics were highly valued by the profession. Their need to demonstrate these attributes sometimes resulted in behaviors that contributed to the development of their WMSDs and made them worse after their onset. Discussion and Conclusion. The cultural values of physical therapists may make it difficult for them to do their jobs in a way that minimizes the risk of WMSDs. The study identified a potential conflict between the therapists' need to (1) demonstrate their ability to work hard and care for their patients and (2) appear knowledgeable and skilled by remaining injury free.
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Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick, Liuxing Tsao, Lili Dong, Xueqian Liu, Liang Ma, and Junwei Wang. "General and passenger-relevant factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) among Chinese female flight attendants." Work 66, no. 4 (2020): 861–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-203231.
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BACKGROUND: A high prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) has been reported among flight attendants. Identifying the root causes of these disorders may improve the health conditions of flight attendants and further improve flight safety and service quality. OBJECTIVE: In this study, we aimed to identify WMSD risk factors for a specific population, namely Chinese female flight attendants. METHODS: A two-stage survey including an online questionnaire (46 flight attendants) and a semi-structured interview (16 flight attendants) was used to assess the WMSDs of Chinese female flight attendants. Text analysis tools in NVivo 11 were used to identify the main concerns and risk factors for WMSDs of Chinese flight attendants. RESULTS: In the online questionnaire, more than 86% of the participants reported discomfort in at least one body part. Biomechanical factors, work organizational factors, and psychosocial factors were reported by participants in this study. Chinese passengers were found to have an effect on WMSD development in Chinese flight attendants. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study suggested that WMSDs are severe problems among Chinese flight attendants. General factors as well as the passenger-relevant factor were identified as the most influential causes of WMSDs.
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Yang, Yan, Jiancheng Zeng, Yimin Liu, Zhongxu Wang, Ning Jia, and Zhi Wang. "Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Their Associated Risk Factors among Furniture Manufacturing Workers in Guangdong, China: A Cross-Sectional Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 21 (2022): 14435. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114435.
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Objective: This study aims to investigate the one-year prevalence and the associated factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) among furniture manufacturing workers in Guangdong, China. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 4181 (2953 males and 1228 females) furniture manufacturing workers was conducted between September 2019 and December 2019. All information about WMSDs was collected by the electronic version of Chinese Musculoskeletal Questionnaires (CMQ). Descriptive statistics and a binary logistic regression model were used to interpret the data. Result: The overall prevalence of WMSDs was 31.57%. The WMSD symptoms most commonly occurred in the neck (16.77%), followed by the shoulders (14.90%), ankles/feet (14.64%), hands/wrists (13.30%), upper back (11.48%), and lower back (10.95%). Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that several individual, labor organization, and ergonomics-related factors conferred significant risks to WMSDs at different body sites. Conclusions: WMSDs remain the major occupational health problem for furniture manufacturing workers. Hence, some effective and feasible protective measures for furniture manufacturing workers are required in order to alleviate the health burden caused by WMSDs.
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Barr, Ann E., and Mary F. Barbe. "Pathophysiological Tissue Changes Associated With Repetitive Movement: A Review of the Evidence." Physical Therapy 82, no. 2 (2002): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ptj/82.2.173.
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AbstractWork-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) represent approximately one third of workers' compensation costs in US private industry, yet estimates of acceptable exposure levels for forceful and repetitive tasks are imprecise, in part, due to lack of measures of tissue injury in humans. In this review, the authors discuss the scope of upper-extremity WMSDs, the relationship between repetition rate and forcefulness of reaching tasks and WMSDs, cellular responses to injury in vivo and in vitro, and animal injury models of repetitive, forceful tasks. The authors describe a model using albino rats and present evidence related to tissue injury and inflammation due to a highly repetitive reaching task. A conceptual schematic for WMSD development and suggestions for further research are presented. Animal models can enhance our ability to predict risk and to manage WMSDs in humans because such models permit the direct observation of exposed tissues as well as motor behavior.
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Halkai, Kiran R., Rahul S. Halkai, Sumapriya Sulgante, et al. "Work-related musculoskeletal disorders among dentists and their prevention through ergonomic interventions - A systematic review." International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health 12, no. 2 (2022): 125–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v12i2.39195.
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Introduction: Occupational or work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) vastly prevail among dental professionals. This review aims to summarize the prevalence of WMSDs and ergonomic interventions for the prevention of WMSDs among dental professionals. Methods: Thorough literature search was done using scientific databases. The terms musculoskeletal disorders among dentists/dental professionals/ hygienists in dentistry, occupational or work-related MSDs, ergonomics, ergonomic interventions, and several combinations were used as keywords. Articles published in the English language only were included. Abstracts, thesis work, and other languages were excluded. Results: Our findings revealed several studies showing the prevalence of WMSD among dental professionals and ergonomic interventions to prevent MSDs among dental professionals. Conclusion: Dental practice is highly challenging both in terms of physical and mental status there is a need for continuing efforts to discover innovative preventive strategies, to reduce the prevalence of WMSDs. This article guides dental professionals to incorporate the proper ergonomic methods in their early stages of day-to-day work, for long-term and healthy dental practice.
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Sirzai, Hulya, and Emine Ahi Dundar. "A cross-sectional study determining the prevalence of musculoskeletal diseases in automotive factory workers." Journal of Surgery and Medicine 6, no. 10 (2022): 868–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.28982/josam.1050531.
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Background/Aim: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) develop due to exposure to physical and psycho-social factors in the work environment. The diagnostic criteria and prevalence of WMSDs are not well established. In this study, we aimed to determine which WMSDs occur in automotive industry workers and what the underlying risk factors may be.
 Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed that included 200 automotive industry workers who were diagnosed with a WMSD by physical and radiological examination in the physical therapy and rehabilitation outpatient clinic in the past year. We recorded demographic data, risk factors and WMSD diagnosis names for the patients.
 Results: In our study, the most common diagnosis was low back disorder (66.5%), followed by neck and shoulder (58%) and upper extremity (23%) disorders. There was a statistically significant increase in the occurrences of shoulder-neck diseases, upper extremity, and low back-lower extremity diseases in workers with inappropriate posture (P < 0.001). Workers who exerted heavy effort or performed repetitive motions were statistically more likely to experience upper extremity disorders (P < 0.001) as well as low back-lower extremity disorders (P = 0.020 and P < 0.001, respectively); there was no statistically significant change in the incidence of shoulder and neck diseases with heavy effort (P = 0.538).
 Conclusion: WMSD is a serious health and economic problem. In our study, we found that low back and lower extremities and neck and shoulder problems are the most common types of WMSDs in individuals working in the automotive sector. Not using proper posture while working causes health problems in the shoulders, neck, upper extremities and low back and lower extremities. Employees in this sector should be encouraged to use good work ergonomics.
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Younis, Usman, Asma Shakoor, Farooq Ahmad Chaudhary, et al. "Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and Their Associated Risk Factors among Pakistani Dental Practitioners: A Cross-Sectional Study." BioMed Research International 2022 (May 10, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4099071.
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Background. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) have a negative impact on quality of life, and dentists are at risk of WMSDs due to the nature of work being static, repetitious, and for a long duration. The study was aimed at measuring the prevalence and distribution of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and determining the risk factors associated with affliction among Pakistani dentists. Methods. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted using a validated questionnaire consisting of four sections. The first section had questions related to sociodemographic information, the second section had questions that assessed the intensity and frequency of musculoskeletal pain (MSP), third section questions were concerned with the effect of MSP on the respondents’ daily life, while the last section contained questions on whether they perceived their work in the dental clinic as a cause of their pain. Chi-square and one-way ANOVA tests were used for the analysis of the data in SPSS-23. Results. A total of 600 completely filled questionnaires were received with a response rate of 76.4%, and about 87% of the dental practitioners had some sort of MSD. The intensity and frequency of WMSDs were statistically significant ( p < 0.05 ) in association with all the sociodemographic characteristics. The lower back area was the most reported site of WMSD pain (51.3%) followed by the neck/upper back (21.3%) and shoulder (17.6%). The site of pain was statistically significant ( p < 0.05 ) in association with all the sociodemographic characteristics except gender ( p = 0.11 ). A majority of participants (95.4%) had sought medical treatment and taken sick leaves (70%) due to WMSDs pain during their life. Participants attributed a number of working years and working posture as the two main reasons behind WMSDs. Conclusion. Considering the high prevalence of WMSDs among dentists, preventive strategies that minimize the occurrence of WMSDs should be adopted by dental professionals. The impact of WMSDs can be reduced by maintaining good posture, taking breaks and rest in between work, doing regular exercise, and improving the work environment.