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  2. Ergonomic hazard - Wikipedia

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    Environmental, operational, or design factors can all negatively impact a worker or user; examples include whole-body or hand/arm vibration, poor lighting, or poorly designed tools, equipment, or workstations. Some of the common body regions where injuries may occur include: Muscles or ligaments of the lower back; Muscles or ligaments of the neck

  3. Abnormal posturing - Wikipedia

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    Abnormal posturing is an involuntary flexion or extension of the arms and legs, indicating severe brain injury.It occurs when one set of muscles becomes incapacitated while the opposing set is not, and an external stimulus such as pain causes the working set of muscles to contract. [1]

  4. List of human positions - Wikipedia

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    Sitting kneel: where the thighs are near horizontal and the buttocks sit back on the heels with the upper body vertical - for example as in Seiza, Virasana, and Vajrasana (yoga) Taking a knee: where the upper body is vertical, one knee is touching the ground while the foot of the other leg is placed on the ground in front of the body

  5. Meditative postures - Wikipedia

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    [7] The pose can cause beginners knee pain [8] and injury. [9] [10] Baddha Konasana is a safer alternative, provided the knees are not pushed down. [11] A simple modern meditation stool, used to assist in sitting with the back upright and the legs crossed. Cushman notes that since meditation is not a posture, no particular posture is required.

  6. Sitting-rising test - Wikipedia

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    The maximum possible score on the SRT is 10 points: a possible total of 5 points for sitting down, and 5 points for rising from the floor to a standing position. Use of a hand, forearm, knee, or the side of the leg to press up from the ground—or bracing a hand on the knee—each result in a deduction of one point.

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    Facebook has been accused of “sitting on its hands” rather than act to protect teenage Instagram users after it was reported the firm’s own internal research had shown it had a negative ...

  8. 46 People Share The Most Shocking Things They Saw ... - AOL

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    Back in the day when women would have a short skirt over their bathing suit bottoms, he was at a beach and noticed that several men were milling around in front of a woman sitting up on the beach ...

  9. Suspension trauma - Wikipedia

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    Worker hanging strapped into a safety harness during a fall rescue drill. Suspension trauma, also known as orthostatic shock while suspended, harness hang syndrome (HHS), suspension syndrome, or orthostatic intolerance, is an effect which occurs when the human body is held upright without any movement for a period of time.