work-related injury (workers' compensation)

Introduction

Risk factors:

• extreme bending
• twisting of neck or back
• mostly standing or squatting at work
• lifting or carrying loads
• pushing or pulling loads
• poor psychosocial factors in workplace (women)
  • role conflicts
  • high emotional demands

Management

• minimized risk factors

More general terms

• trauma

Additional terms

• arm injury
• back injury
• cauda equina syndrome
• elbow injury
• entrapment neuropathy; nerve entrapment syndrome; pinched nerve
• hand injury
• inguinal hernia
• neck injury
• pelvic injury
• shoulder injury
• thoracic outlet syndrome
• traumatic leg injury
• wrist injury