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The physically demanding work manual therapists do puts them at risk for musculoskeletal injury. But injury is not inevitable. Save Your Hands! 2nd Edition gives manual therapists the proven injury prevention and ergonomics strategies and tips they need to protect their health and prolong their careers. Whether you're a student or an experienced practitioner in any of the hands-on treatment professions (massage, PT, OT, nursing, chiropractic, etc.), this indispensable guide will help you save not only your hands, but also your back, neck, shoulders and emotional well-being throughout a long, healthy career.In an accessible, richly-illustrated format, Save Your Hands! 2nd Edition shows you how to: * Design your treatment space so you can work safely and efficiently * Find alternative techniques to protect vulnerable parts of your body * Improve body mechanics to reduce stress and increase comfort as you work * Stay in shape with a physical conditioning program developed specifically for manual therapists * Recognize early symptoms and address them effectively before they lead to injury."Quite simply, the book is excellently conceived and constructed, and is very well presented, and I highly recommend it."-- Leon Chaitow, ND, DO, author, Muscle Energy Techniques, Honorary Fellow, University of Westminster, London"Save Your Hands! provides excellent practical suggestions for improving safety of the provision of manual therapy services."--Jeff Lau, PT, DPT, OCS, CMPT, Program Director, PTA program, Provo College, Utah"Save Your Hands! is a book every massage therapist and hands-on health practitioner should own and study." --Ben E. Benjamin, PhD, author, Listen to Your Pain"Save Your Hands! 2nd Edition is by far the most knowledgably written, fully researched and richly illustrated book available on the subject of manual therapist injury prevention."--Renee F. Gladieux, The Pressure Positive Company"At Centura College, Save Your Hands! has always been and continues to be the textbook of choice for our Injury Prevention course. Graduates of our college frequently remark that Save Your Hands! is one of their most valued reference and resource texts.--David Marquart, CMT, Corporate Director of Massage Therapy Programs, Centura College

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The International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is currently developing standards for Ergonomic Quality in Design (EQUID) which primarily intends to promote ergonomics principles and the adaptation of a process approach for the development of products, work systems and services. It is important to assess the ergonomic quality of products, hand-held tools and computer input devices through working processes that represent reality. Well-designed working tools can be expected to reduce or eliminate fatigue, discomfort, accidents and health problems and they can lead to improvements in productivity and quality. Furthermore, absenteeism, job turnover and training costs can positively be influenced by the working tools and the environment. Not all these short-term and long-term issues of working tools can be quantified in pragmatically oriented ergonomic research approaches. But multi-channel electromyography, which enables the measurement of the physiological costs of the muscles involved in handling tools during standardized working tests, and subjective assessments of experienced subjects enable a reliable insight in the essential ergonomic criteria of working tools and products. In this respect it is advantageous to provide a test procedure, in which working tests can be carried out alternating both with test objects and reference models.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

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This book focuses exclusively on ergonomics in the design and use of hand tools. Hand tools have been an integral supplement to the human hand since the beginning of civilization. Recently, they have been pinpointed as a prominent cause of workplace disease. Cumulative Trauma Disorders such as Tendonitus, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Raynaud's Syndrome are caused by the specialization of motion employed when using a screw driver, the shock to the hand and wrist when a hammer strikes a nail, or the vibration of a power saw. Ergonomics and Safety in Hand Tool Design explores the relationship between Biomechanics, Safety, and Ergonomics allowing the reader to recognize, evaluate, and control ergonomic risk factors and improve hand tool design.After a history of hand tool use and design, the book is broken down by the various disciplines as they apply to hand tools, taking a broad approach. The author gives special attention to safe design and use, illustrated with detailed diagrams. The text serves as a guide to the human factors in safety and ergonomics for safety professionals.

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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: As a simple solution to alleviate problems associated with manual material handling, manual vehicles, such as carts, trucks, wheelbarrows, etc., are often provided to operators. This review was initiated by concern for the effects of design, task, environment, and operator factors on the usability of manual vehicles. The previous studies are summarized and then ergonomic recommendations are made for each factor. Most studies have been performed on four-wheeled carts and focused on wheel design, handle height, load weight, moving direction, motion phase, and floor type. Biomechanics, psychophysics, and work physiology have been used to help understand usability. For future research, the systematic classification of manual vehicles is necessary to make specific ergonomic recommendations for special-purpose manual vehicles. Relevance to industry: Workers use manual vehicles to reduce physical stresses during manual material handling without the awareness of their factor effects on usability. This review paper would be useful for a manufacturer and ergonomist to design and select general manual vehicles.

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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of work height, workpiece orientation, gender, and screwdriver type (Phillips or flat head) on productivity and wrist deviation during a repetitive screw driving task. Seven males and seven females (mean ages of 37.6 and 51.7 years old, respectively) performed the experiment. Males and females performed better with the Phillips head screwdriver. Although gender was not significant, the interaction between gender and screwdriver was, with females having a greater performance difference (30%) between the two screwdriver designs than males (10%). There were strong workpiece orientations by work height interactive effects on productivity and measures of wrist deviation. The implications of the results for workplace design, and comparisons to previous studies with similar experimental conditions are discussed. Relevance to industry: Enhancing performance in industry requires considering both the injury potentials of tasks as well as productivity concerns. In the case of non-powered hand tools, this requires selecting tools and designing tasks and equipment to minimize awkward postures and force requirements while permitting adequate productivity. The current study provides results and job design guidance for repetitive screwdriver use.