Research Catalog

Title

Repetitive strain injury : a computer user's guide / Emil Pascarelli, Deborah Quilter ; foreword by Fred Hochberg.

Author

Pascarelli, Emil F., 1930-

Publication

New York : J. Wiley, c1994.

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Additional Authors

Quilter, Deborah, 1950-

Description

xviii, 218 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Explains how to treat and prevent different kinds of repetitive strain injuries, including Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Subject

• Computer Terminals
• Computer terminals > Health aspects
• Computer users > Health and hygiene
• Cumulative Trauma Disorders
• Cumulative Trauma Disorders > diagnosis
• Cumulative Trauma Disorders > therapy
• Overuse injuries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204) and index.

Contents

What you should know about RSI -- RSI: a preventable tragedy -- Commonsense approach to RSI: the seven point program -- Symptoms of RSI -- Assessing your risk for RSI -- Diagnosis and treatment of RSI -- Getting an accurate diagnosis -- Classifications of repetitive strain injury -- RSI examination -- Treatment options for RSI -- Computer vision -- Road to recovery -- Beginning the healing process with physical and occupational therapy -- Self care: taking charge of your recovery -- Activities of daily living -- Your emotions -- Maintenance: preventing injury and reinjury -- Back to work: from disability to productivity -- Setting up the workstation -- Typing technique retraining for computer athletes -- Preventing RSI: the big picture -- Legal issues -- Protecting your legal rights if you have job related RSI.

ISBN

• 0471595322 (acid-free paper)
• 0471595330 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^93031758^

OCLC

28708764

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library