The Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Disorder Consortium

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• Personal Author:
  Meyers, Alysha R.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Division of Field Studies and Engineering
• Description:
  As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, we look back at many of our successful programs.
  
  The Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Disorder Consortium is a collaborative research program to prevent work-related upper limb musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The Consortium studies work-related MSDs to better understand and help prevent the work-related risk factors for:
  
  • carpal tunnel syndrome
  
  • tendinitis of the forearm and wrist
  
  • shoulder disorders
  
  In the late 1990s, NIOSH, OSHA, and other government and academic occupational health partners recognized that research was needed to better understand and prevent the growing epidemic of painful, costly, and disabling work-related MSDs. While there were known associated work-related factors, there was limited evidence linking risk factors to MSDs.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events CDC--history Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal Pain NIOSH--history Upper Extremity
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Webpage
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2c93e9c560cd29973c8b7969ecc81b301cc7038418f352b8f99db058b75d970f2ccb28e17a3bf81293fdbe69e68467fe380fb65b0c0f6104bbf967bd50c58b24
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/109012/cdc_109012_DS1.pdf
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