Association between work-related biomechanical risk factors and the occurrence of carpal tunnel syndrome: an overview of systematic reviews and a meta-analysis of …

A Kozak, G Schedlbauer, T Wirth, U Euler… - BMC musculoskeletal …, 2015 - Springer
Background Occupational risks for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) have been examined in
various occupations, and several systematic reviews (SRs) have been published on this …

Work‐relatedness of carpal tunnel syndrome: Systematic review including meta‐analysis and GRADE

A Hassan, A Beumer, PPFM Kuijer… - Health Science …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common
peripheral nerve entrapment syndrome with a high prevalence among workers. Insights on …

Hand pain and sensory deficits: Carpal tunnel syndrome: Clinical practice guidelines linked to the international classification of functioning, disability and health from …

M Erickson, M Lawrence, CWS Jansen, D Coker… - Journal of Orthopaedic & …, 2019 - jospt.org
The Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and the Academy of Hand and Upper
Extremity Physical Therapy have an ongoing effort to create evidence-based clinical practice …

Work-related neck and upper limb disorders–quantitative exposure–response relationships adjusted for personal characteristics and psychosocial conditions

I Balogh, I Arvidsson, J Björk, GÅ Hansson… - BMC musculoskeletal …, 2019 - Springer
Background We have previously reported quantitative exposure-response relationships
between physical exposures recorded by technical methods, and complaints and diagnoses …

[HTML][HTML] Inter-and intra-observer reliability of risk assessment of repetitive work without an explicit method

K Eliasson, P Palm, T Nyman, M Forsman - Applied ergonomics, 2017 - Elsevier
A common way to conduct practical risk assessments is to observe a job and report the
observed long term risks for musculoskeletal disorders. The aim of this study was to evaluate …

Carpal tunnel syndrome and manual work: the OCTOPUS cohort, results of a ten-year longitudinal study

FS Violante, A Farioli, F Graziosi, F Marinelli… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2016 - JSTOR
Objective The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)
proposed a method to assess the hand, wrist and forearm biomechanical overload based on …

Risk assessment of manual handling operations at work with the key indicator method (KIM-MHO)—Determination of criterion validity regarding the prevalence of …

A Klussmann, F Liebers, H Gebhardt… - BMC musculoskeletal …, 2017 - Springer
Background Manual handling operations (MHO) are known to be risk factors for work-related
upper limb disorders (WRULDs), eg symptoms and conditions such as carpal tunnel …

Occupational risk factors for work disability following carpal tunnel syndrome: a pooled prospective study

C Harris-Adamson, EA Eisen, J Kapellusch… - Occupational and …, 2022 - oem.bmj.com
Background Although recent studies have identified important risk factors associated with
incident carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), risk factors associated with its severity have not …

Modeling the Effect of the 2018 Revised ACGIH® Hand Activity Threshold Limit Value® (TLV) at Reducing Risk for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

M Yung, AM Dale, J Kapellusch, S Bao… - … of Occupational and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Recent studies have shown the 2001 American Conference of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists (ACGIH®) Threshold Limit Value (TLV®) for Hand Activity was not sufficiently …

Observed differences between males and females in surgically treated carpal tunnel syndrome among non-manual workers: a sensitivity analysis of findings from a …

A Farioli, S Curti, R Bonfiglioli… - Annals of work …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objectives We aimed at assessing whether differences among males and females in carpal
tunnel syndrome (CTS) epidemiology might be attributable to segregation with respect to …