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Standardised Nordic questionnaires for the analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms.

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Standardised questionnaires for the analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms in an ergonomic or occupational health context are presented and specific characteristics of work strain are reflected in the frequency of responses to the questionnaires.
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This article is published in Applied Ergonomics.The article was published on 1987-09-01. It has received 4470 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders & Musculoskeletal disorder.

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Physical and Psychosocial Work‐related Risk Factors Associated with Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Home Care Personnel

TL;DR: 'Standing in forward-bent and twisted postures', 'standing in awkward positions' and whether the subject had children staying at home were significantly correlated to complaints about the low back and decreased the risk of having complaints.
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Exposure-response relationships for work-related neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders - Analyses of pooled uniform data sets

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between exposure-response relationships between occupational risk factors and musculoskeletal disorders in the neck and shoulders and concluded that women exhibited a higher prevalence of neck and shoulder complaints and tension neck syndrome than men, when adjusting for postures, velocities, muscular activity or psychosocial exposure.
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Effect of whole-body vibration on the low back. A study of tractor-driving farmers in north India.

TL;DR: Tractor-driving farmers report backache more often than non-tractor- driving farmers, but no significant objective differences on clinical or magnetic resonance imaging evaluation were found between the two groups.
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Heritability of spinal pain and consequences of spinal pain: A comprehensive genetic epidemiologic analysis using a population-based sample of 15,328 twins ages 20–71 years

TL;DR: Heritability estimates for pain in different spinal regions are quite similar and there is a moderate to high genetic correlation between the phenotypes, which may indicate a common genetic basis for a high proportion of spinal pain.
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Validation of a questionnaire for assessing physical work load

TL;DR: The method developed in this study is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing physical work load and the integration of statistical methods from psychological testing and theory in the development of methods exploring the effects of physical work Load is advocated.
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Investigation of cumulative trauma disorders in a poultry processing plant.

TL;DR: A study in a poultry processing factory that proceeds from an analysis of health records to a analysis of work methods, postures and forces is described, suggesting alternative work procedures and knife designs are recommended to reduce stressful work posture and forces.
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Remarks ON PREGNANCY COMPLICATED BY FIBROMYOMATA OF THE UTERUS, A RECORD OF TEN CASES TREATED BY LAPAROTOMY

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TL;DR: The writer who thinks endometritis so common in virgins has found that this is so, and thinks the operation ought to be extended to some cases in which haemorrhage is not a very important feature.
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Disorders of the cervicobrachial region among female workers in the electronics industry

TL;DR: Large interindividual differences in working technique, and thereby in work load, were obtained and some of these measures, especially those describing flexion and abduction of the upper arm, were related to symptoms in the neck and shoulder.
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