QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF WRIST MOTIONS

工业中与职业相关的日益严重的问题之一是 手腕累积性创伤障碍(腕管综合征， 腱鞘炎等)。人们普遍认为，这些障碍是 与手部和手腕在工作中的运动有关。然而，一个空虚 存在于将手和手腕定量联系起来的文献中 对这一地区的混乱风险的动议。这样做的目的是 研究是将手和手腕的运动范围和运动分量相关联 具有职业伤害风险的特征。这将是 通过1)开发手腕监控系统(基于 由这些研究人员开发的现有系统)，可以准确地 量化手腕角度、速度和加速度特性的三个方面 维度空间，2)监控手和手腕的运动特性 从事高、中、低风险职业的产业工人 职业(风险将由#年工业委员会数据库进行评估 俄亥俄州)，并分析这些数据，以便手和手腕的运动范围 以及与手部风险增加相关的运动部件 手腕疾病可以被识别出来。这些知识将被用来 制定新的工作场所设计原则，以降低职业风险 最大限度地减少了伤害。

One of the growing occupationally related problems in industry is that of hand and wrist cumulative trauma disorders (Carpal tunnel syndrome, tenosynovitis, etc.). It is widely accepted that these disorders are related to the motions of the hand and wrist during work. However, a void exists in the literature which quantitatively relates hand and wrist motions to the risk of disorders in this area. The objective of this research is to correlate hand and wrist movement range and motion component characteristics with the risk of occupationally induced injury. This will be accomplished by 1) developing a wrist monitor system (based on an existing system developed by these researchers) which can accurately quantify wrist angle, velocity and acceleration characteristics in three- dimensional space, 2) monitor hand and wrist motion characteristics of industrial workers who are employed in high, medium, and low risk occupations (risk will be assessed by an Industrial Commission data base in Ohio), and 3) analyze this data so that the hand and wrist movement ranges and motion components which are associated with an increased risk of hand and wrist disorders can be identified. This knowledge will be used to develop new workplace design principles so that the risk of occupation injury is minimized.