Phase I IUCRC at The Ohio State University: Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations

本网站的目的是创建一个更全面的，定量的了解因果途径的发展肌肉骨骼疾病（MSD）在职业环境中，这是众所周知的复杂和多因素。 从本研究中心开展的研究中获得的知识将有助于确定更有效地调节损伤风险和损伤严重程度的干预措施。 这个网站是必要的，因为，不仅是MSD的损失工作时间的主要原因和残疾的主要原因在世界各地，但目前的治疗许多类型的MSD往往是困难的或不成功的。 该网站将是对破坏性肌肉骨骼创新中心（Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations，简称CCEN）的补充，该中心旨在开发干预措施，以开发更具成本效益的治疗方法。 然而，它已被公认为MSD预防远远比治疗更具成本效益。 因此，本网站产生的干预概念将应用于职业工作场所设计、医疗保健提供、运动医学、军事和服务行业。 此外，更好地了解肌肉骨骼疾病的因果途径将改善创新治疗的基础，并作为对目前正在进行的研究的有益补充。本网站建议解决肌肉骨骼疾病（MSD）的影响及其对受伤员工，公司和美国的巨大负担。 它在现有的IUCRC框架内将是独一无二的，因为它主要侧重于MSD预防工作，而不是伤后治疗。 MSD继续给我们的社会带来负担，因为它们的原因是多因素的，复杂的，而且往往知之甚少。 因此，本网站有三个技术重点，每一个都旨在提高我们对工作相关的MSD如何发展的理解，以便这些知识的应用可以帮助预防或降低MSD率。 首先，我们的工厂将应用工程技术来量化和描述MSD因果路径，并利用这些知识干预该路径，从而通过员工和产品消费者接触的工作场所和设备设计来预防或降低MSD风险。 其次，我们将进行必要的研究，以改进现有的工具，或创建新的工具，提高MSD风险评估的敏感性和特异性。 第三，我们将利用这种方法更好地了解何时以及如何让受伤员工返回工作场所，以最大限度地降低他们再次发生默沙东的风险。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The purpose of this Site is to create a more comprehensive, quantitative understanding of causal pathways for the development of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the occupational environment, which are known to be complex and multi-factorial. Knowledge gained from research performed at this Site will lead to the identification of interventions that will more effectively mediate injury risk and injury severity. This Site is needed because, not only are MSDs a major cause of lost work time and the leading cause of disability worldwide, but current treatments for many types of MSDs often are difficult or unsuccessful. This Site will be an addition to the Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations (CDMI), which was created to develop interventions that could develop more cost-effective treatments. However, it has been well established that MSD prevention is far more cost effective than treatment. Thus, the intervention concepts to be generated by this Site will have applications to occupational workplace designs, healthcare delivery, sports medicine, the military, and the service industry. In addition, a better understanding of causal pathways to MSDs will improve the bases for innovative treatments and serve as a useful complement to the research currently being conducted by the CDMI.This Site proposes to address the impact of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and the large burden they impose on injured employees, companies, and the U.S. healthcare industry. It will be unique within the existing IUCRC framework, since it focuses primarily on MSD prevention efforts as opposed to post-injury treatments. MSDs continue to burden our society because their causes are multi-factorial, complex, and often poorly understood. Thus, this Site has three technical focuses, each of which is aimed to improve our understanding of how work-related MSDs develop, so that the application of this knowledge can help to prevent or reduce MSD rates. First, our Site will apply engineering techniques to quantify and characterize MSD causal pathways and use this knowledge to intervene in the pathway, thereby preventing or decreasing MSD risks through workplace and equipment designs to which employees and product consumers are exposed. Second, we will conduct needed research to improve existing tools, or create new tools, which improve the sensitivity and specificity of MSD risk assessments. Third, we will use this approach to better understand when and how to return injured employees to the workplace so as to minimize their risk of an MSD recurrence.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.