Indicators for choosing an optimal mix of major working postures

Working conditions and musculoskeletal pain among Brazilian pottery workers

“…Lower limbs have been a very common site of pain among industry worker populations and it is related to working in standing positions for extended periods without posture variations 20,21 . Studies have shown that prolonged standing is associated with discomfort and cardiovascular problems and have postulated the benefits of changing posture while working 22 . Back pain can also be related to working in standing positions, and to activities which require lifting/carrying loads and repetitive movements of the upper limbs 23,24 .…”

Comparação da pressão plantar e dos sintomas osteomusculares por meio do uso de palmilhas customizadas e pré-fabricadas no ambiente de trabalho

“…This condition has been shown to be associated with inadequate body postures, including prolonged periods of time in the standing position at work that affect particularly the spine and lower limbs and generate absenteeism and reduction in production, as suggested by Laperrière et al 5 and Sobel et al 6 . The maintenance of the described posture and musculoskeletal discomfort has been addressed in the scientific literature [7][8][9][10] .…”

Quebec Research on Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders

“…One of the key objectives of researchers and practitioners dealing with WMSD is to identify factors that contribute to their development and associated disability. Members of our team have contributed to the literature demonstrating that physical workload as well as organizational and psychological work-related factors all play parts in the development of WMSDs (Delisle et al, 2006;Fuller, Fung and Côté, 2011;Laperrière et al, 2006;Ngomo et al, 2008;St-Vincent et al, 2006). However, the inter-relationships between these risk factors and the causal pathways to the associated outcomes are not well understood, so effective prevention may necessitate the use of more complex analytic tools (Aschengrau and Seage, 2003).…”

“…For instance, tendon disorders of the lower extremities are relatively common but have rarely been studied (Burdorf, Naaktgeboren and De Groot, 1993;Janwantanakul et al, 2010;Kalra et al, 2010;Kennedy et al, 2010). Several group members study determinants and effects of prolonged standing at work (Messing, Tissot and Stock, 2008), in the hope of producing suggestions for an optimal mix of working postures between standing, sitting and walking (Laperrière et al, 2006;Ngomo et al, 2008). It appears that worker control over posture is an important health determinant (Messing, Tissot and Stock, 2008).…”

“…In addition to efforts to improve methods for measuring exposure in self-reported surveys (Stock et al, 2005b), members of the MSD axis have worked on developing methods to collect individual-level measures of biomechanical work exposure (Delisle et al, 2005(Delisle et al, , 2009Laperrière et al, 2006;Plamondon et al, 2007). Since continuous recording generates enormous amounts of data, researchers are exploring methods to select the exposure measures most relevant to the risk under study.…”