Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ; Trigger Finger ; Introduction to Paediatric Physiotherapy
At first, working from home didn’t seem like too much of a challenge. In March, the sales manager set up a card table and a folding chair in her laundry room, then kept the door mostly closed to keep the noise from her kids and pets to a minimum. She actually enjoyed the considerably shorter commute. But around Memorial Day, she noticed her back was aching by the end of the workday. She started taking brief breaks each hour to stretch it out. By July, her wrists began hurting as she typed. And...
Nineteen months ago, Gina Bassel developed carpal-tunnel syndrome while working as a checkout clerk at a Vons Cos. supermarket in Los Angeles. Today, Bassel is still awaiting surgery, and she and Vons are still haggling over her case. Better off is Patricia Berens, who suffered a similar wrist injury while making office furniture for Steelcase Inc. Five days after her surgery on Sept. 23, she returned to light duty cleaning company uniforms. Vons recently beefed up a program to curb workers' compensation expenses, but its experience is typical ...
D iana Henriques was first stricken in late 1996. A business reporter for The New York Times, she was in the midst of a punishing effort to bring a reporting project to fruition. Then one morning she awoke to find herself incapable of pinching her contact lens between her thumb and forefinger. Henriques’s hands were soon cursed with numbness, frailty, and a gnawing ache she found similar to menstrual cramps. These maladies destroyed her ability to type—the lifeblood of her profession—witho...
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ; Trigger Finger ; Introduction to Paediatric Physiotherapy
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ; Trigger Finger ; Anatomy, Biomechanics and Regional Interdependence of the Thorax
If you get hurt or become sick on the job, you probably have the right to compensation in the form of workers' comp benefits. In fact, workers' comp may be your only remedy for work-related...