Coping with arm pain in the workplace

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 351, Issue , 1998, Pages 57-62

  Hadler, Nortin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JOB SATISFACTION; ORGANIZATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0031779976     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199806000-00008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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