July 15, 2002—Selected papers from the recently held Georgetown Symposium on Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders were recently published in a special edition of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 41, No. 5 (May 2002).
This symposium was held to improve the understanding of potential mechanisms by which stress causes or exacerbates musculoskeletal problems, to identify future areas for research, and to discuss the implications of stress on workplace ergonomic interventions.
American, Canadian and European researchers and clinicians from many scientific and medical disciplines attended this symposium held on November 6- 7 2001 in Washington, DC. Topics included: job stress models; epidemiological foundations; musculoskeletal and biomechanical models; central nervous system models of persistent clinical pain; psychophysiology of work; and implications for intervention.
The Office Ergonomics Research Committee (OERC) was founded in 1991 by a group of U.S. companies concerned by reports of increasing upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders among office workers. The OERC seeks to understand the association between office work and musculoskeletal problems and to communicate its findings on their possible causes and methods of intervention.
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