Occupational Overuse Syndrome

Bammer, G., and BUgnault, I. (1988), More Than a Pain in the Arms A Review of the Consequences of Developing Occupational Overuse Syndromes (OOSs), Journal of Occupational Health and Safety—Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 389-397. 

Hutter, B. Lloyd-Bostock, S. 1990, The power of accidents , British Journal of Criminology, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 409-22 Jack, S. Lenko, S. 1992, Rehabilitation of occupational overuse syndrome in keyboard operators . Proceedings of Futuresafe 92, Adelaide National Safety Council of Australia... 

External factors can also affect trends in injury types. Greater public awareness of a problem, e.g. occupational overuse syndrome, may encourage more workers to report it. An organization with marty staff in vehicles may be affected by changes in roads and road layout, or by imusual weather patterns. 

You should always, of course, be prepared to consider genuine new evidence which emerges about the risk from a particular workplace agent or stressor, such as occurred with keyboards and occupational overuse syndrome (OOS) some years ago. 

Musculoskeletal damage can particularly affect the lower back, neck and shoulders. Occupational overuse syndrome, OOS (repetition strain injury), is generally a result of fine repetitive work involving the hand and wrists. It can involve inflammation of the tendons of the wrists and hands (tenosynovitis), or squeezing (due to inflammation) of the tendons and nerves entering the hand (carpal tunnel syndrome). Other types of OOS exist and can also involve the nervons system. Slips, trips and falls are other obvious sources of sprains and strains of mnscles and joints. 

Common forms of occupational overuse syndrome (OOS) and preventative ergonomic strategies... 

OOS, or occupational overuse syndrome, is a condition of generalized or particular mental or physical fatigue, which may be accompanied by physical pain, and resnlts from overuse of particular parts of the body to perform work tasks. 

Worksafe Australia. (1996). Guidance Note for the Prevention of Occupational Overuse Syndrome in Keyboard Employment. NOHSC 3005. Canberra AGPS. 

In the differential diagnosis of allergic rhinitis, one should include the following rhinitides vasomotor rhinitis, nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophilia syndrome (NARES) (49), atrophic rhinitis (52), occupational rhinitis, medication-induced rhinitis (especially rhinitis medicamentosa due to the overuse of topical sympa-thomimetics), hormonal rhinitis (pregnancy and hypothyroidism), infectious rhi-... 

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