How a physician understands, interacts, and communicates with a patient with musculoskeletal low back pain will have a powerful impact on the course of care and outcome, regardless of the diagnosis. The authors of the new second edition of Low Back Pain provide a unique and valuable perspective on the non-surgical management of this potentially disabling condition.

Pub. Date: November 2007
ISBN: 978-1-883595-34-0
Format: Paperback, 360 pages. 

Completely revised, this new edition has been condensed into a single, hardcover, volume. Less basic science and more emphasis on practical guidelines useful to the industrial ergonomist and occupational health specialist. Concise and straightforward presentation of information, data, and how-to guidelines for implementing solutions to human factors and ergonomics problems in industry. This edition also features case studies, glossary and index.

Chapter headings include:
• Ergonomics Design Philosophy
• Evaluation of Job Demands
• Workplace Design
• Equipment Design
• Human Reliability and Information Transfer
• Work Design
• Manual Handling in Occupational Tasks
• Environment

Pub. Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-471-41863-3
Format: Hardcover 

Sold as a two volume set, "Fundamentals and Assessment Tools For Occupational Ergonomics" and "Interventions, Controls, and Applications in Occupational Ergonomics", this 2006 revision provides a comprehensive source for ergonomic knowledge.
Highlights include:
*Systematic applications of ergonomic theories and data in the design and management of many industries and businesses
*New information on management, ergonomic design for facility planning, ergonomics for processing and distribution industries, and product design for occupational ergonomics
*Provides state-of-the-art theory and up-to-date practical knowledge required for effective management of ergonomics safety issues in the workplace
*Includes discussions of cognitive factors, design of information devices and controls, multimodal information processing, and tolerances and variation in human performance
*Covers practical interventions in industry that utilize participatory approaches, surveillance, OSHA recordkeeping requirements, and psychological work factors
*Discusses ergonomics interventions in industries such as meat and poultry processing, agriculture, distribution centers, healthcare, and service systems
*Presents methods for pyschophysical assessment techniques, cognitive task analysis, application of subjective scales of effort and workload, and determination or rest allowances

The volume titled "Fundamental and Assessment Tools for Occupational Ergonomics" introduces basic principles of ergonomics in system design and evaluation, as well as comprehensive approach to work related musculoskeletal disorders. This volume is a comprehensive source of theoretical ergonomics knowledge relevant to product and process quality, management of health and safety, and productivity in a variety of industries and businesses.

"Interventions, Controls, and Applications in Occupational Ergonomics" includes descriptions of the elements of ergonomics processes, in addition to success factors for implementation of industrial ergonomics programs. It covers injury surveillance database systems and corporate health management for the design and evaluation of health in industrial organizations, ergonomics processes from the small and large industry perspectives, and human digital modeling, as well as facilities planning and organization design and macro-economics. Additional chapters cover methods and techniques for engineering control, including tried and true strategies and pitfalls to avoid.
Pub Date: 2006
Format: Hardcover, 2-Volumes 

This thoroughly revised third edition, published in 2006, compiles the research of 109 of the world's top thinkers and practitioners in one volume. Written for all human factors and ergonomics specialists, engineers, industrial hygienists, safety engineers, and human-computer interaction (HCI) specialists, all new chapters feature theoretically based and practically oriented material supported by numerous case studies, examples, figures, and tables. New topics included in the third edition are:
*Cultural ergonomics
*Virtual environments
*Human factors and information security
*Usability evaluation and testing
*Design of e-business Web sites
*Augmented cognition in HCI
Design for those with disabilities
*Design for children
*Human factors and ergonomics standards
*Human factors and ergonomics in transportation

Format: Hardcover, 1654 pages with index
Published: 2006 

Revised and updated, this reference covers both the theoretical background and the clinical management, as well as the biomechanics and ergonomics, of orthopedic injuries occurring in the workplace.
Features several new chapters: Functional Capacity Testing; Disability Evaluation; Treatment Options for the Wrist and Hand; Evaluation of the Neck; Epidemiology of the Neck. Coverage of specific disorders has been expanded. New section on outcome evaluation and new topics, including whiplash. Workplace Adaptatioins with case studies are included in every body segment chapter.
Pub Date: 2007
Format: Hardcover, 428 pages 

Written in non-technical language, this is a resources that will assist health professionals, workers and employers in better understanding the types of work patterns that have potential to cause various cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) and to heighten awareness of the ergonomic interventions that can be adopted to reduce these problems in the workplace.
Pub Date: 1988
Format: Paperback, 151 pages. 

Divided into three sections: the predicament, the patient, and the claimant. Chapter topics include backache, functional somatic syndromes (fibromyalgia and the like), regional disorders of the axial skeleton, regional disorders of the upper and lower extremities, neurovascular syndromes, the disabled, epidemiology and the work-relatedness of regional musculoskeletal disorders, the vortex of disability determination and the aged worker.

Pub. Date: 2004
Format: Hardcover, 339 pages w/index 

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It is estimated that hand-arm vibration (HAV) jeopardizes the health and employability of at least two million workers in the United States and United Kingdom alone. In this revised and expanded second edition, learn how to evaluate and control the health risks associated with Hand-Arm Vibration (HAV)

Pub. Date: 1998
ISBN: 1-883595-22-3
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages., Four 4-color illustrations.