scholarly journals Ergonomic Design of Classroom Furnitures: Evaluation of Comfortability and Musculoskeletal Disorders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kojo Agyapong Afrifah ◽  
Mark Glalah
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Furniture Design ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
Wooden Furniture

Background: Anthropometric studies are essential in furniture design to ensure comfortability and improved productivity of the users. Methods: Anthropometry of 407 from a population of 5601 students, and classroom furniture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology were evaluated. Student’s comfortability and reported musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in using the furniture were assessed with two questionnaires. Participants who volunteered for the study were randomly selected and had no previous history of MSDs. Descriptive statistics of the collected data were analyzed using SPSS software. Results: The participant's aged ranged from 17 to 28 years, and mostly were female (61%). The fitness between student’s anthropometry and classroom furniture included underneath table height for the imported plastic furniture and chair seat depth and width, as well as underneath table height for the locally manufactured wooden furniture. We observed high incidence of MSDs, including upper back (71.40%), lower back (58.30%), neck (51.90%), joint (39.10%), shoulder (32%), knee (25.20%), and wrist (22.60%) pain. The prevalence of MSDs were higher in women than men. The majority of the students were uncomfortable with using the furnitures, and only 6.6% reported comfortable experience. Conclusion: Recommended dimensions for ergonomically designed furniture have been proposed to reduce MSDs in the students. It would improves student’s health, and promote comfortability.

scholarly journals Prevalence, Profile, and Response to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Egyptian Physiotherapists

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 1692-1699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walaa Ahmed Khairy ◽  
Amira Hassan Bekhet ◽  
Bothina Sayed ◽  
Sara Elsayed Elmetwally ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed Esayed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Physiotherapy Practice ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Common Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Private Setting

BACKGROUND: Despite that physiotherapists (PTs) are supposed to have adequate knowledge of musculoskeletal disorders and the different prevention strategies, they are at high risk of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMDs). AIM: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, profile, predictors, and response to WRMDs among Egyptian PTs. METHODS: A self-administrated questionnaire was distributed either manually or via e-mail to 564 PTs with at least two years of working experience. Questions elicited information about the personal and occupational history of the respondents in addition to the experience of WRMDs in the past two years. RESULTS: Four hundred and fourteen respondents (82.6%) reported WRMDs within the last two years, with the lower back as the most common area affected (68.8%). More than half the PTs (54.8%) who sustained a WRMD reported that their injury took place in a private setting. Significant predictors for WRMDs were age (AOR = 0.78; 95% CI = 0.66, 0.91) and number of years of experience in physiotherapy practice (AOR = 1.26; 95% CI = 1.07, 1.49). In response to the injury, about 73.9% of the respondents stated that they did not officially report their injury and 55.8% of them reported losing a half day or more from their work. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of WRMDs among Egyptian physiotherapists is high. Despite socioeconomic and cultural differences between Egypt and other countries, our study findings were consistent with the published reports. Further studies are needed to explore the cultural and psychosocial risk factors of WRMDs.

Female Sex Offenders

1987 ◽  
Vol 150 (5) ◽  
pp. 615-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Art A. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Female Sex Offenders ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Sex Offences ◽  
History Of

Information on 19 women convicted of indecency and 62 women convicted of other sex offences was examined. Those convicted of indecency offences often had poor social skills and had a high incidence of mental illness, mental handicap and alcoholism. Two were convicted of indecent exposure, a rare offence in women. In 39 (63%) of the sex offences with individual victims, the victims were children and in 9 cases the offender was the mother or step-mother. In 25 cases the women were convicted of aiding and abetting a male offender. Of those convicted of indecent assault on persons under 16 and of gross indecency with children, 48% had a previous history of psychiatric disorder.

The technique of fetal echocardiography, with its indications and results in a selected population

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria J. Maitre Azcárate ◽  
Manuel Quero Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Fetal Echocardiography ◽  
Previous History ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Final Group ◽  
Echocardiographic Findings

SummaryOne of the most important contributions of echocardiography to the diagnosis of congenital cardiac malformations is represented by its use in prenatal evaluation. In the present work we discuss the analysis of echocardiographic findings in a preliminary study of the hearts of fetuses in 273 pregnant women. The cases have been divided into three groups. The first group of 169 women was made up of those without a known factor conferring high risk on the pregnancy. The second group of 18 women was comprised of those of suspicions of either arrhythmias or congenitally malformed hearts. The final group of 86 women, consisted of those having had previous children with congenital heart disease. The incidence of pathology in those without risk was 0.5%. In those referred because of suspicion of disease, the incidence was 16.6%, while in those with previous history of children with heart disease, the incidence was 5.8%. Our findings proved the utility of the echocardiogram for the diagnosis of heart malformations prior to birth and confirmed the increased incidence of malformations in fetuses in mothers who had previously produced children with congenital heart disease. The high incidence of cardiac abnormalities in the group referred on the basis of an earlier scan is due to the filter represented by routine echocardiography performed by the obstetricians.

Subsequent Suicide in Depressed In-Patients

1968 ◽  
Vol 114 (511) ◽  
pp. 749-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur W. T. McDowall ◽  
Eileen M. Brooke ◽  
Dorothy L. Freeman-Browne ◽  
Ashley A. Robin
Keyword(s):  
Male Patient ◽  
Clinical Psychiatry ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Suicidal Intent ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Contact ◽  
First Admission

The assessment of suicidal intent is one of the most important problems of clinical psychiatry. An earlier study (Robin, Brooke and Freeman-Browne, 1968) has confirmed the high incidence of suicide in admissions diagnosed at first contact as suffering from affective disorders, and found that 8 per cent. male in-patients and 5 per cent. female in-patients so diagnosed committed suicide during a follow-up of 6–11 years. It was also shown that in male patient suicides unemployment at the time of first admission and a previous history of self-poisoning or self-inflicted injury occurred more often than in matched controls, while a history of more than one suicidal attempt was found more often in female suicides than in matched controls. Female suicides were treated less often with E.C.T. than their controls, and more often with tranquillizers.

405: Previous History of Bladder Cancer is an Independent Prognostic Factor for Upper Tract Transitional Cell Carcinoma

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 135-135
Author(s):  
Eiji Kikuchi ◽  
Akira Miyajima ◽  
Ken Nakagawa ◽  
Mototsugu Oya ◽  
Takashi Ohigashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Cancer ◽  
Prognostic Factor ◽  
Transitional Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Transitional Cell ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Independent Prognostic Factor ◽  
Upper Tract ◽  
History Of

Popliteal artery thrombosis secondary to a tibial osteochondroma

VASA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gruber-Szydlo ◽  
Poreba ◽  
Belowska-Bien ◽  
Derkacz ◽  
Badowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Angiography ◽  
Popliteal Artery ◽  
Doppler Ultrasonography ◽  
Histopathological Examination ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Plain Radiography ◽  
Artery Thrombosis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

Popliteal artery thrombosis may present as a complication of an osteochondroma located in the vicinity of the knee joint. This is a case report of a 26-year-old man with symptoms of the right lower extremity ischaemia without a previous history of vascular disease or trauma. Plain radiography, magnetic resonance angiography and Doppler ultrasonography documented the presence of an osteochondrous structure of the proximal tibial metaphysis, which displaced and compressed the popliteal artery, causing its occlusion due to intraluminal thrombosis..The patient was operated and histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of osteochondroma.

Rhabdomyolysis in DOMS

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (05) ◽  
pp. 164-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Ruiz Hernandez ◽  
C. Sanchez Marchori ◽  
J. Munoz Moliner ◽  
C. Martinez Carsi
Keyword(s):  
Bone Scintigraphy ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Biochemical Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Increased Activity

SummaryA 26-year-old man with a previous history of external twin bursitis was remitted to our Department for a bone scintigraphy. Before the study, the patient performed an elevated number of intense sprints. Bone scintigraphy showed a bilaterally increased activity in both anterior rectum muscles suggesting rhabdomyolysis. Biochemical studies and MRT confirmed the diagnosis.

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