title: [Effect of physically hard labor on the locomotor system--results of an epidemiological cross-sectional study of resin tappers].
abstract: Resin tapping involves a high physical workload. We found the mean working-energy expenditure to be 21 +/- 5 kJ min-1. The mean heart-rate amounted to 127 +/- 18 beats min-1. It is the upper extremities where the work-related strain is particularly high. The clinical, function-diagnostic and X-ray examinations (X-ray only for resin tappers) covered 110 resin tappers and a control group of the same size (for pair-matching purposes). The main finding of the examinations was that both the pain and the degree of elbow-joint arthrosis deformans significantly increase in the course of the work years in resin tapping. Arthrosis deformans of the elbow joints is regarded by us to be a "resin-tapping related health risk", which is found in one in four resin tappers after about 18 work years.
authors.affiliation: Arbeitshygieneinspektion des Rates des Bezirkes Potsdam/Arbeitshygienisches Zentrum der Land-, Forst- und Nahrungsgüterwirtschaft der DDR/Institut für Arbeitshygiene.
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Jürgens
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ristow
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Pernack
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D004551:Elbow Joint; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D009790:Occupations; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D014197:Trees; D014937:Work
vernacular_title: Zur Wirkung körperlicher Schwerarbeit auf das Bewegungssystem--Ergebnisse einer epidemiologischen Querschnittsstudie von Harzarbeitern.