Stress and work‐related upper extremity disorders: Implications for prevention and management

Abstract

Health care providers can recognize stress-WRUED interactions through careful, directed inquiry. Both individual as well as workplace-targeted interventions, delivered in the primary care setting or workplace, may be helpful. Future research priorities include prospective studies of well-defined interventions, with ample measures of subject, intervention and workplace characteristics that can impact outcomes, and adequate follow-up to determine sustained effects.

Cost-effectiveness of multidisciplinary treatment in sick-listed patients with upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders: a randomized, controlled trial with one-year follow-up

“…Differences in the speed of return-to-work can be considered important, since the longer a worker is on sick leave, the more difficult it is to return to work (Hildebrandt et al 1997;Frank et al 1998;Verbeek 2001). It should be noted that return-towork does not always occur as a result of a patients' Effect size is small if d=0.2, medium if d=0.5 and large if d=0.8 (Cohen 1988(Cohen , 1992 health improvement (Pransky et al 2002;Van der Klink et al 2003). Complaints and functioning are, therefore, both relevant outcomes for the individual patients.…”

Feedback of workplace data to individual workers, workgroups or supervisors as a way to stimulate working environment activity: a cluster randomized controlled study

“…business trends, innovations in production technology, management trends (Carayon and Smith 2000;Cole et al 2003;Nytro¨et al 2001). It is presently not possible to specify exactly what modifications or interventions will lead to improved health among computer workers (Cole et al 2003;Pransky et al 2002;Reynolds 2000;vanderKlink et al 2001;Westgaard and Winkel 1997) . Guided by general knowledge about ergonomics and psychosocial factors, interventionists and participants in occupational health work must test modifications and learn from experience.…”

White-Collar Workers’ Self-Reported Physical Symptoms Associated With Using Computers

“…The literature also shows that stress is a common problem in working life, and that it is related to psychosocial factors and may be associated with musculoskeletal complaints [8,12]. Therefore, it is possible to understand that in our data depression influenced physical symptoms.…”

“…Stress is also a common problem in working life; it is related to psychosocial factors and may be associated with musculoskeletal complaints [8,12]. Eklöf, Ingelgård and Hagberg [8] and Eklöf and Hagberg [13] studied Swedish white-collar VDU (visual display unit) workers.…”