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ReviewBest practice & research. Clinical rheumatology2015

Rheumatic effects of vibration at work.

Keith T Palmer, Massimo Bovenzi

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Review in Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Keith T PalmerMedical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, ARUK-MRC Centre for Work and Musculoskeletal Heath, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK. Electronic address: ktp@mrc.soton.ac.uk.
Massimo BovenziClinical Unit of Occupational Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy. Electronic address: bovenzi@units.it.

Funding

Medical Research Council 20665Medical Research Council MC_PC_15015Medical Research Council MC_U147585823Medical Research Council MC_UP_A620_1018Medical Research Council MC_UU_12011/5
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Occupational exposures to vibration come in many guises, and they are very common at a population level. It follows that an important minority of working-aged patients seen by medical services will have been exposed to this hazard of employment. Vibration can cause human health effects, which may manifest in the patients that rheumatologists see. In this chapter, we identify the health effects of relevance to them, and review their epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and vocational and clinical management. On either side of this, we describe the nature and assessment of the hazard, the scale and common patterns of exposure to vibration in the community and the legal basis for controlling health risks, and we comment on the role of health surveillance in detecting early adverse effects and what can be done to prevent the rheumatic effects of vibration at work.

Indexed as

Diagnosis, DifferentialEmploymentHumansOccupational DiseasesOccupational ExposureRheumatic DiseasesRisk FactorsVibrationBack painCarpal tunnel syndromeOccupationRaynaud's phenomenonVibration

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PMID26612239
PMCPMC4766735

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