Postural Assessment of Women Workers Involved in Various Handloom Activities

Muscle fatigue and grip strength among commercial handloom weavers

“…Similar studies were conducted to assess the muscle fatigue in the hand among different industrial workers -Cotelez et al, 2016 in footwear industry workers, Bhattacharyya and Chakrabarti, 2012 on Cumulative trauma disorder in tea leaf pluckers and musculoskeletal pain among female weavers by Dewangan and Sora, 2015 [4,5,8] . These conditions of muscle fatigue were found among weavers when they assume different posture at work while performing various activities [10][11][12][13] and do not take adequate rest in between the work hours, at the same time stress of completing their task in the required time. The high significant value was observed in the hand pain, shoulder pain, back pain and elbow pain of the weavers.…”