Many occupational environments require labor intensive activities, which could result in
fatigue and injuries and cause decreased work performance. Recently, the breakthroughs of …

Background Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are a key topic in
occupational health. In the primary prevention of these disorders, interventions to minimize …

Objective: This study aims to investigate the one-year prevalence and the associated factors
of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) among furniture manufacturing workers …

Repetitive work is common in the modern workplace and the effects are often studied using
fatigue protocols; however, there is evidence that the manner in which fatigue develops …

Job rotation is an organisational strategy that can be used, in part, to reduce occupational
exposure to physical risk factors associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders …

Objective: The authors developed a function to quantify fatigue in multiple shoulder muscles
by generating a single score using relative changes in EMG amplitude and frequency over …

Spinal postural variability (SPV) is a prerequisite to prevent musculoskeletal complaints
during functional tasks. Our objective was to evaluate SPV in cervicogenic headache (CeH) …

Although the workstations of a Brazilian automotive electrical harness production line are set
close to TAKT time (the production rate required to meet demand), factory performance is …

Industrial companies indicate a tendency to eliminate variations in operator strategies,
particularly following implementation of the lean principle. Companies believe when the …

Purpose Evaluate whether wearing a passive back-support exoskeleton during repetitive
lifting impairs motor variability of erector spinae muscle and spine movement and whether …