NEW STUDY FROM THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY SPINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE : MANY EMPLOYEES ARE AT RISK.
Discover how how common push/pull testing procedures within manufacturing and industry put practitioners at risk of musculoskeletal injury.
"When it comes to cumulative damage to the spine, we don’t have any feedback mechanism that tells us when we’re doing damage, and that’s the beauty of the spine model that we’re using; it’s able to say whether or not an activity is causing any damage at that point in time." - Dr. Gary Allread, Program Director for the Ergonomics Division of The Ohio State University Spine Research Institute
"One of the benefits of this project will be to relate the kind of force you get out from a more rudimentary or more contrived pushing or pulling procedure [where a single axis force gauge is used] to something that would more accurately reflect what would be happening in the workplace on a day-to-day basis." - Eric Weston, Graduate Research Associate of The Ohio State University Spine Research Institute