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      Support
RSI Resources
LA RSI Support Group
"Inform yourself about RSI so that it doesn't happen to you."
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1702
CTD Resource Network
Organization providing educational material and charitable assistance related to the prevention and treatment of cumulative trauma disorders, also known as repetitive strain injuries.
http://www.ctdrn.org

      Prevention
Computer-Related Repetitive Strain Injury
good advice from Paul Marxhausen (an engineering electonics technician)
http://engr-www.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/rsi.html#PREVENT
Harvard RSI Action Home Page
prevent RSI:  suggestions from students
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/rsi/#preventing
Exercises May Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
special exercises that can help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) developed by a team of orthopaedic surgeons, plus the radical findings of Houshang Seradge, MD, on a cure for carpal tunnel syndrome
http://www.aaos.org/wordhtml/press/exerci.htm
University of Virginia Ergonomics Page
http://www.virginia.edu/~enhealth/ERGONOMICS/toc.html

      Products
Worklink A.D.A.
Leading provider of equipment and training in voice recognition and adaptive technologies.
http://www.worklink.net
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AnthroCarts
Technology furniture for computer application
http://www.anthro.com

      Research
Preventing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
Why are work-related musculoskeletal disorders a problem?  What can be done?  What is OSHA doing?  Official OSHA facts.
http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/ergonomics/ergofactnew.html
Response of Muscle and Tendon to Overuse
James A. Ashton Miller, Ph.D., Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: (1999), pp. 1-32: I Steering Committee Report, Nat'l Academy Press 1999, pg. 73.  Read the entire document.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309063973/html/73.html#73
Musculoskeletal Disorders and Workplace Factors
The Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts the only routinely published, national survey about occupational injuries and illnesses.  Read results interpreted by NIOSH here.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ergtxt1.html#scope

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