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The Repetitive Strain Injury Sourcebook
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| Format: | Illustrated |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Number of Pages: | 370 |
| Category: | Hardcover |
| Number of Items: | 1 |
| ISBN: | 1565657918 |
| Label/Manufacturer: | Lowell House |
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Sixty-one percent of all workplace illnesses reported to the Bureau of Labor are related to repetitive strain injuries. This book will explain the dynamics of this epidemic, the physiology of the various conditions, how it is being treated, and what can be done to prevent it.Product Features
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on 1997-12-11An excellent sourcebook covering all aspects of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) the new epidemic of the technological age. You may have RSI and not even know it, and if you are reading this review you are definitely at risk for it (computer users are particularly at risk). Almost two-thirds of all workplace injuries in the U.S. are caused by it. The author, a newspaper reporter, describes the injury, what causes it, how to recognize if you have it, how to avoid it if you don't yet have it, the various treatments available, and how it is likely to affect your life outside the workplace. To illustrate each chapter, the author has included interviews with RSI victims from across the country. She concludes with a description of her own affliction with RSI, a story that is searing, yet ultimately uplifting. The most important value of this book is not just that it is a comprehensive review of this disease, but even more importantly, that it calls attention to a disease that can be truly thought of as the new plague of the twentieth century, a disease that has so far claimed its victims in silence. What is particularly insidious about RSI is that unlike the other epidemics that afflicted humankind, the contagion is not spread from person to person, but from machine to person, meaning the epidemic will increase just about as fast as our use of computer keyboards increases. Because this epidemic is not transmitted in the way previous epidemics have been, it has remained a silent yet increaing crippler of otherwise healthy and productive adults. The public awareness that will be required to halt the spread of this disease can be found in the pages of this book. I highly recommend it.
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