OOS and preventative ergonomic strategies

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

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. 

Particular types of OOS include carpal tuimel syndrome due to swelling of tissnes in the wrist from activities such as excessive keyboarding, and tenosynovitis where the synovial membranes in which tendons are covered, such as the tendons in the hands, become swollen and inflamed. 

An early form of OOS in people employed as scribes in the nineteenth century was writer s cramp . A number of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limbs (arms) have well-known soinces related to tool design, wrist posture, or task design, and the solutions are known. 

However, there are a number of syndromes (conditions) the underfying pathology of which is unknown that is, there is no well-identified reason for the condition. 

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