ArticleJRSM short reports2012
Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder.
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- Effects of different computer typing speeds on acceleration and peak contact pressure of the fingertips during computer typing.Journal of physical therapy science · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate if typing speed is proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder (WRULD).
designStandardized functional typing test with participants scoring pain before and after typing; calculation of typing speed.
participantsFifty-nine patients and six controls.
settingTertiary hospital centre for hand and upper limb pain.
main outcome measuresPain (VAS 0-10) and calculation of typing speed as words per minute.
resultsTHREE SUBGROUPS OF PATIENTS WERE FOUND BASED ON THEIR TYPING SPEED: fast, slow and intermediate. Two-tailed student T-test with P level at 0.05 was used for evaluation. The typing speeds were significantly different between all three patient groups (P < 0.05). The typing speed was significantly faster in the fastest patient group than in the control group (P = 0.04) and the slow and middle groups (P = < 0.0001). The pain before typing was highest in the 'slow' group, in both hands but this difference was not statistically significant.
conclusionTyping speed is not proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with WRULD. Patients with statistically significant slower or faster typing speeds do not have statistically different levels of pain.
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