Reported level of pain of upper extremities related to multi-factorial workloads among office workers during and after work hours

Work

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 363-369

  Ratzon, Navah Z ^a   Jarus, Tal ^a   Baranes, Galia ^a   Gilutz, Yael ^a   Erez, Asnat Bar Haim ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Keyboard; Pain; Physical strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DEMOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; PAIN; PHYSICAL STRESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0031786175     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/wor-1998-11314     Document Type: Article

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