Sector: food industry

Type of hazard: design of work and technology

Catchwords: video work, health impairments and disorders

Status: completed 12/1996

Financed by: Berufsgenossenschaft Nahrungsmittel und Gaststätten

Research institution(s): Institut für pathologische Physiologie der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Arbeitsgruppe Motorik

Description, key words:

Analysis of trunk muscle activity when seated in front of a screen

Activities/methods:

Analysis of different seating postures by means of EMG- topography

Results:

Predominantly asymmetric activation of the lumbar back muscle system without correlation with the centre of gravity location calculated from the area pressure distribution when seated; high degree of stability of the individual activating patterns; sideways shifting of working centres of gravity during active seating; muscular fatigue could not be established either during active or static seating

Publications:

Referat auf "Prävention von berufs-/arbeitsbedingten Gesundheitsstörungen und Erkrankungen - 2. Erfurter Tage" 12/95

last update: 22.08.2000