Risks and causes of musculoskeletal injuries among health care workers

K Ngan, S Drebit, S Siow, S Yu, D Keen… - Occupational …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… Background Musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) persist as the leading category of occupational
injury in health care. Limited evidence exists regarding MSIs for occupations other than …

Work organization and musculoskeletal injuries among a cohort of health care workers

M Koehoorn, PA Demers, C Hertzman, J Village… - … , environment & health, 2006 - JSTOR
… patient-nurse ratios and musculoskeletal injuries among health care workers (11). Workload
… conditions for health care workers. Focused discussions with health care workers as part of …

[HTML][HTML] A new pre-employment functional capacity evaluation predicts longer-term risk of musculoskeletal injury in healthy workers: a prospective cohort study

J Legge, R Burgess-Limerick, G Peeters - Spine, 2013 - journals.lww.com
… limited evidence of their validity predicting injury in healthy workers. This study indicates that
musculoskeletal injury risk after 1.3 years of employment, particularly for back injuries from …

Measuring health in injured workers: A cross‐sectional comparison of five generic health status instruments in workers with musculoskeletal injuries

DE Beaton, C Bombardier… - American journal of …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
workers off work with musculoskeletal injuries. The aim was to determine which generic
measure of health … in a planned cohort study of prognostic factors in workers with such injuries. …

The association of socioeconomic status and psychosocial and physical workplace factors with musculoskeletal injury in hospital workers

M Gillen, IH Yen, L Trupin, L Swig… - American journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… ‘‘Other Clinical’’ occupations (34% mental health workers) had the highest risk of injury (OR
4.5: 95%CI, 1.7 –12.1) for all injuries. The ERI ratio was a significant predictor for neck and …

Work‐break schedules for preventing musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders in healthy workers

T Luger, CG Maher, MA Rieger… - Cochrane Database of …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
… population included healthy, adult workers, who were free of musculoskeletal complaints
during … workers. We considered workers as healthy when they were free of musculoskeletal

Effect of transfer, lifting, and repositioning (TLR) injury prevention program on musculoskeletal injury among direct care workers

TR Black, SM Shah, AJ Busch, J Metcalfe… - Journal of occupational …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… In our study, all direct care health workers who were required to regularly handle patients
were eligible for the study. Other occupations such as housekeeping, maintenance, security, …

[HTML][HTML] The management of work-related musculoskeletal injuries in an occupational health setting: the role of the physical therapist

J Prall, M Ross - Journal of exercise rehabilitation, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of ergonomic interventions and strengthening exercises on acute musculoskeletal injuries
amongst office workers. One hundred forty-two office workers aged 20–50 years old with neck, …

Musculoskeletal injuries and their associated risk factors in office workplaces.

A Choobineh, H Rahimifard, M Jahangiri… - … health, 2012 - search.ebscohost.com
… selected office workers participated. Nordic musculoskeletal disorders questionnaire was …
MSDs were less than other healthy workers indicating inappropriate ergonomics conditions. …

Musculoskeletal injuries in construction: a review of the literature

SP Schneider - Applied occupational and environmental hygiene, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
musculoskeletal risk factors. The existing data show construction workers to be at signi cant
risk of musculoskeletal injury, … Their risk of musculoskeletal injury is much higher than that of …