Background. Stair climbing is often performed by people in daily life and requires considerable energy muscle effort. This task has been widely described the literature, but role of knee joint ligaments not sufficiently investigated. could be relevant for planning ligament reconstruction surgery, providing suggestions to subjects with partial injuries, identifying compensatory strategies reduci...

Introduction: The usage of back support belt for manual handling activities particularly lifting/lowering loads in occupational setting has been a sore point conflicting agreement between industrial practitioners and academician on its effectiveness prevention injuries. As such, this pre-test post-test experimental study was designed to investigate the reducing localized musculoskeletal discomf...

This review brings an overview of the Slovak regulations concerning occupational safety and health at work (OSH) primarily considering parameter physical load. In addition to regulations, this article focuses on particular requirements workplaces with increased load describes permissible values (see tables). Attention is given assessing working posture handling loads. The main purpose evaluatio...

abstract background and purpose: work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) are a group of painful disorders of muscles, tendons, and nerves. carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, thoracic outlet syndrome, and tension neck syndrome are examples. almost all work requires the use of the arms and hands, therefore, most wmsd affect the hands, wrists, elbows, neck, and shoulders. the aim of the cu...

This article presents the results of evaluations mechanical stresses associated with performance manual lifting tasks loads and those operators must endure in their workplaces, considering these most recurrent cases positions. study is based on a static analysis certainspecific positions human body, transmission forces through musculoskeletal structure, generation efforts at critical points bod...

BACKGROUND: Almost 25%of workers in the European Union suffer from back pain, and 23%complain of muscle pain. Sixty-two percent carry out repetitive operations with their hands or arms, 46%work painful tired positions 35%carry handle loads. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt validate Italian version Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire (CMDQ-I). METHODS: Tran...

Mechanotransduction is the physiological process where cells sense and respond to mechanical loads. This paper reclaims the term "mechanotherapy" and presents the current scientific knowledge underpinning how load may be used therapeutically to stimulate tissue repair and remodelling in tendon, muscle, cartilage and bone. The purpose of this short article is to answer a frequently asked questio...