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Author Base, Steering Committee for the Workshop on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: The Research

Title Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders : Report, Workshop Summary, and Workshop Papers
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages)
Series Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
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Contents Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE -- II WORKSHOP SUMMARY -- Introduction -- Organizing Framework -- Biological Responses of Tissues to Stressors -- PRESENTATIONS -- Soft Tissue Responses to Physical Stressors: Muscles, Tendons, and Ligaments -- Muscles -- Tendons and Ligaments -- Soft Tissue Responses to Physical Stressors: Nerves -- DISCUSSION -- Work Factors, Individual Host Factors, and Internal Loads: Biomechanics of Work Stressors -- PRESENTATION -- Work Factors and Biomechanics -- DISCUSSION
Epidemiology: Physical FactorsPANEL DISCUSSION -- WORKSHOP DISCUSSION -- Non-Biomechanical Factors That Can Affect Musculoskeletal Disorders -- PRESENTATION -- Epidemiological Evidence that Non-Biomechanical Factors Can Cause Musculoskeletal Disorders -- Individual Factors -- Organizational and Social Factors -- DISCUSSION -- Intervention to Control Musculoskeletal Disorders -- PRESENTATION -- The Research on Interventions to Control Musculoskeletal Disorders -- DISCUSSION -- Conclusion: Integration and Overview -- PANEL COMMENTS -- GENERAL DISCUSSION
Ligament response to alterations in loadingLigamentous response to repetitive loading -- Age-Related Changes in Ligaments -- Tendon -- Cumulative Strain -- Animal models of tendon response to exercise -- Animal models for inducing tendinosis. -- Measurements of Carpal Tunnel Pressure -- Muscle-Tendon Unit -- BRIEF DISCUSSION�THE SITE OF INJURY. -- CONCLUSIONS -- Tendon/ligament -- Muscle -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Biological Response of Peripheral Nerves to Loading: Pathophysiology of Nerve Compression Syndromes and Vibration Induced�
INTRODUCTIONSTRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PERIPHERAL NERVES -- Microanatomy -- Normal Gliding of Nerve Trunks -- PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT�DATABASE SEARCH -- EXPERIMENTAL DEVICES FOR NERVE COMPRESSION IN ANIMALS -- NERVE COMPRESSION�ACUTE EFFECTS (HOURS) -- NERVE COMPRESSION�SHORT-TERM EFFECTS (DAYS) -- NERVE COMPRESSION�LONG-TERM EFFECTS (WEEKS) -- HISTOLOGY OF HUMAN NERVE COMPRESSION -- VIBRATION AND NERVE�SHORT-TERM EFFECTS (DAYS) -- HISTOLOGY OF HUMAN VIBRATION INDUCED NEUROPATHY -- EXTRANEURAL PRESSURE IN NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES
Bibliography ""REFERENCES""""Appendix A Invitees and Participants, Workshop on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: Examining ... ""; ""PARTICIPANTS""; ""INVITEES WHO WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND""; ""STAFF""; ""Appendix B""; ""III WORKSHOP PAPERS ""; ""Response of Muscle and Tendon to Injury and Overuse""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""MUSCLE""; ""Contraction-induced Injury""; ""Single-event muscle strain injuries:""; ""Muscle Fatigue""; ""Muscle Pain""; ""Aging Effects in Muscle""; ""Effect of Exercise on Muscle""; ""Estimation of Muscle and Tendon Forces""; ""PASSIVE TENSILE STRUCTURES:""; ""Ligament""
Notes ""Effects of joint posture and hand loading on extraneural pressure in normal subjects""
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Subject Musculoskeletal system -- Wounds and injuries -- Congresses
Stress (Physiology) -- Mechanical properties -- Congresses
Musculoskeletal system -- Congresses
Occupational diseases -- Congresses
Musculoskeletal system -- Diseases.
Musculoskeletal system.
Occupational diseases.
Diseases.
Anatomy.
Stress, Mechanical
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Congresses
Musculoskeletal System
Occupational Diseases
Disease
Anatomy
Mechanical Phenomena
Publication Formats
Publication Characteristics
Physical Phenomena
Phenomena and Processes
Animal Structures
disease.
illness.
anatomy.
Musculoskeletal system -- Diseases
Diseases
Anatomy
Musculoskeletal system
Musculoskeletal system -- Wounds and injuries
Occupational diseases
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
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ISBN 9780309539203
030953920X
0309063973
9780309063975