Thank you, Ryan, for your help!

Here is the NIOSH Lifting Equation Addendum B, which I passed out in class a few weeks ago.

Here is the study guide for my portion of lecture. Remember that Dr. Kring has his own questions from his portion of the class - study for that, as well!

Study guide also available as Word doc

Addendum B: NIOSH Lifting Equation

-       Know why and how (big picture concepts) we would use the NIOSH lifting equation

-       Know the definitions of the variables for the NIOSH lifting equations and how to measure them.

-       Know what the lifting index (LI) is and what various scores imply

NIOSH Lifting Equation, Application, and Problem Solving

-       Know slide 6 Task Factors to Exacerbate Postural Stress

-       Know slide 7 Work Place Factors to Exacerbate Postural Stress

Anatomy and Biomechanics of Manual Handling

-       Know slide trunk failures

-       Know slides on Manual Handling Injury Prevention

-       Know slides on the abdominal belt controversy

Introduction to work-related musculoskeletal disorders, risk assessment, and task design

-       Know slide on adverse outcome factors

-       Know the work vs. exercise slides

-       Understand the definition of tendonitis

-       Understand De Quervian’s Tenosynovitis

-       Short Answer: Read over the slides regarding epidemiology. Don’t sweat over memorizing little details and how to calculate the two equations listed. Think in broad terms about the relationships between epidemiology, human factors / ergonomics, and MSDs / WMSDs.

-       Short Answer: Understand chronic pain theories (many of them within the tissue pathodynamic and work vs. exercise slides) The book and Ashley’s lectures covered many theories to explain why pain, especially chronic pain, due to WMSDs occurs.



Hello. This is a continuation of last week's lecture on WMSDs. Yeah! My favorite!

HF 312 Introduction to work-related musculoskeletal disorders, risk assessment, and task design

I spoke about this in class last week. I apologize for the disadvantage that you guys are in because Dr. Kring and I are in the process of creating this class curriculum. I encourage you all to take advantage of the benefits of your position and help us create the course for subsequent classes for years to come! I contacted my aunt, who has been in education for 30 years, to give me some good information about creating courses and curriculum, etc. She told me about www.ucop.edu, which is an online resource for educators hosted by the University of California system. It includes guidelines for setting goals and objectives for courses, as well as information on how to ensure your evaluation measures match those goals and objectives. If any of you would like to help in our efforts, please peruse this website to help structure your suggestions.

Thank you again for your participation in this class. Ergonomics is one of my passions - I'm blushing...I know it is a bit geeky - and it is my pleasure to help teach this class. I want to be sure I do my part to make it a good course. Your help is much appreciated.

Best,

Ashley

It's March! Wow, time flies.

Here is the lecture for today. It is incomplete, as it will take two weeks of class to finish. The slides carry through Trigger Finger. I will replace the slides with the completed version before next week's lecture.

Best,

Ashley

Work Releated Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs), Risk Assessment and Task Design