Repetitive Stress Injury Can Be Measured

By: Cal-OSHA

SAN FRANCISCO - Physiotherapist Jane Greening of University College, London, said recently that she had found a way to measure chronic pain in fingers and hands. According to Reuters, she and a neurophysiologist used a device called a vibrometer to determine the function of sensory nerves in the hands of 17 RSI sufferers and another group of 29 office workers without symptoms.They did the measuring over a two-year period. In people with RSI, "their sensitivity to vibration had halved and they required

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