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Repetitive strain injury : a computer user's guide

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, NY : J. Wiley
©1994.

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Description

xviii, 218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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

Subject

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
9780471595328
0471595330
9780471595335

LCCN

93031758

OCLC

ocm28708764
28708764
SCSB-9825979

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library