Occupation and upper limb disorders

Work related disorders of the upper limb.

Free muscle transfer for challenging and rare upper limb disorders

Free innervated muscle transfer (FMT) achieves functional restoration following not only traumatic brachial plexus injury, but also intractable rare upper limb disorders, such Hopkins’ syndrome, myoplasia in arthrogryposis and radition neuropathy. I introduce our current experience of FMT for these disorders. Hopkins syndrome is a rare cause of poliomyelitis-like paralysis affecting one or more...

Management of upper limb disorders and the biopsychosocial model RR596

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Workplace management of upper limb disorders: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND Upper limb pain is common among working-aged adults and a frequent cause of absenteeism. AIMS To systematically review the evidence for workplace interventions in four common upper limb disorders. METHODS Systematic review of English articles using Medline, Embase, Cinahl, AMED, Physiotherapy Evidence Database PEDro (carpal tunnel syndrome and non-specific arm pain only) and Coch...

Upper Limb Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Manufacturing Industry

Light and heavy manufacturing contribute a great deal to the Italian economy and the products manufactured in this sector form a major part of the exports. Most of the manufacturing industries center around small or medium-sized firms, but there are some larger companies too. Although automation will characterize work in the future, manual labour will remain important for Italian manufacturing ...