Work-related musculoskeletal disorders present a serious, ongoing threat to the health and wellbeing of all physio staff. Use this resource pack to help safeguard your career. Although students and ...

Why is manual patient handling unsafe? The cumulative weight a nurse or nursing assistant may have to lift during patient lifts or transfers within an eight-hour shift can be as much as 1.8 tons.

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the ...

Abstract: Muscle fatigue is defined as the point at which the muscle is no longer able to sustain the required force or work output level. The overexertion of muscle force and muscle fatigue can ...

Abstract: Recent statistics and reports indicate that considerable size of workforce in various industries is aged around and above 60 years. Although the physical capacities are generally depleting ...

Nurses, nursing assistants, orderlies, therapists, and other care staff are regularly required to perform high-risk manual transfers of patients in hospitals and residents in long term care facilities ...