Validation of A Fatigue Failure-based Risk Assessment Tool For Distal Upper Extremity MSDs

摘要

This paper presents a new practitioner-friendly distal upper extremity tool (DUET) based on fatigue failurerntheory. The tool requires only assessment of force exertion (using the OMNI-RES scale) and the number ofrnrepetitions performed to derive DUE risk. Validation of this tool was performed against six separate DUErnoutcomes from an epidemiological database involving data obtained from 1,022 participants across 738rnjobs from several automotive manufacturing plants. The DUET Cumulative Damage (CD) measurernexplained between 79-95% of the deviance for the six DUE outcomes in logistic regression analyses.