Sökning: "work posture"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 65 avhandlingar innehållade orden work posture.

  1. 21. Low back and neck-shoulder pain : work and heritability

    Författare :Teresia Nyman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :Low back pain; Neck-shoulder pain; Co-morbidity; Heritability; Twin study; Sickness absence; Occupational exposure; Exposure assessment; Musicians; Performing arts medicine;

    Sammanfattning : Low back pain (LBP) and neck-shoulder pain (NSP) represent a large public health problem being common disorders that often lead to negative consequences for the individual and large costs for Society. The main goal of the thesis is to explore how factors relating to aetiology, i.e. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Psychosocial situation and work after breast cancer surgery : women's experiences

    Författare :Marie I Nilsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Nowadays, most women survive the disease, and many working women continue in paid employment. Nevertheless, there is little scientific knowledge of working after breast cancer surgery and of how various stakeholders support women after a breast cancer diagnosis. LÄS MER

  4. 23. The Impact of Stressful Postures on the Physical Workload in Nursing

    Författare :Sonja Freitag; Tore J. Larsson; Andreas Seidler; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; nurses; musculoskeletal disorders; trunk posture; perceived exertion; ergonomics;

    Sammanfattning : Nursing staff have an elevated risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders, in particular in the lower back area. Statistics produced by leading industrial nations show that back problems are the world’s number one work-related health problem, and that healthcare workers suffer from a greater occurrence of such problems than workers in other professions. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Locus of control and its relation to working life : studies from the fields of vocational rehabilitation and small firms in Sweden

    Författare :Patrick Millet; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Teknisk psykologi; Engineering Psychology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates in four studies the impact of the psychological construct internal versus external control of reinforcement on Swedish working life in two distinct areas. The first is that of vocational rehabilitation, explored in the first two studies; the second is that of leadership style in small firms. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Efficient strategies for collecting posture data using observation and direct measurement

    Författare :Per Liv; Svend Erik Mathiassen; Marina Heiden; Leif Nilsson; Ingvar Bergdahl; Stephen Bao; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Exposure assessment; arm elevation; exposure variability; variance components; random effects model; precision; bias; sample size; sample allocation; calibration; bootstrapping; Occupational and Environmental Medicine; arbets- och miljömedicin;

    Sammanfattning : Relationships between occupational physical exposures and risks of contracting musculoskeletal disorders are still not well understood; exposure-response relationships are scarce in the musculoskeletal epidemiology literature, and many epidemiological studies, including intervention studies, fail to reach conclusive results. Insufficient exposure assessment has been pointed out as a possible explanation for this deficiency. LÄS MER