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Effects of External Load and Upper Extremity Postures on Perceived Discomfort  

Kee, Do-Hyung (Department of Industrial Engineering, Keimyung University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.17, no.4, 2002 , pp. 178-183 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to quantitatively investigate the effects of external load upper extremity posture on perceived discomfort. An experiment was conducted for measuring discomfort scores depending upon external loads and upper extremity postures, in which the free modules and numeric estimate method of the magnitude estimation was adopted as a tool for obtaining discomfort ratings. The upper extremity postures were controlled by wrist flexion/extension, elbow foexion, shoulder flexion, and shoulder adduction/abduction. The results showed that all experimental variables except shoulder adduction/abduction were significant at ${\alpha}$=0.01 or 0.05. The effect of external load was very much larger than that of upper extremity postures. Therefore, it is recommended that a new posture classification scheme taking effect of external load to into consideration be developed for quantifying postural load.
Keywords
external load; postural load; discomfort; posture classification scheme;
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