Carpal tunnel syndrome and manual work: the OCTOPUS cohort, results of a ten-year longitudinal study

• Main Authors: Francesco S Violante (Author), Andrea Farioli (Author), Francesca Graziosi (Author), Francesco Marinelli (Author), Stefania Curti (Author), Tom J Armstrong (Author), Stefano Mattioli (Author), Roberta Bonfiglioli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) proposed a method to assess the hand, wrist and forearm biomechanical overload based on exertions frequency (hand-activity level) and force use (normalized peak force). We applied the ACGIH threshold limit value (TLV)®...