Mouse hand has become the occupational diseases in the United States

The patient will feel a tingling, weakness of the hand, you can not make a fist and grasping small objects, with the symptoms get worse, you may develop can not drive and dressing. The hand muscles white, hand function irreversible damage occurs. Serious may occur permanent disability of the hand. In addition, the patient may appear reflex sympathetic dystrophy disorders, patients had to give up work and computer-related.

The following statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor:

- According to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, the employee repetitive strain injuries of the upper body (such as the wrist, elbow, shoulder) accounted for nearly 2/3 of the reported occupational diseases. The most common strain is the mouse hand.

- The U.S. Department of Labor claims the mouse hand is a major occupational diseases in the United States in the 1990s, resulting in a sizeable employees with disabilities.

- Nearly 36% of the mouse hand patients eventually underwent surgery, but after surgery, patients continue previous work, 50% of patients will relapse within 6 weeks to 6 months.

- Only 23% of the mouse hand after surgery patients can return to their original jobs.

Mouse hand compensation case:

Employers should be aware that they have to workplace repetitive strain injury (RSI) responsible for the high incidence. 2002, a British court Barclays Bank (Barclays Bank) £ 244,000 in compensation to a former staff member Fiona Conaty. Fiona Conaty before leaving the bank an ordinary staff suffering from mouse hand, her right hand because of work, the pain it had to give up the work of the bank, she claimed in court the nature of her work for her long-term with keyboard and use the mouse to the right posture and her symptoms has been going on for two years, so that later she can not tie their shoes and hair when she was 28 years old only.

Hon. W. Bruce Cowden judge Kosmos Cement Company to make some compensation to its employees Judy Eberhardt. Because she was suffering from a right shoulder injury and work-related wrist tunnel syndrome. Eberhardt starting from October 14, 1991, the Kosmos Cement Company work. When she was operating a bulldozer when, right shoulder pain. She thought she was suffering from a repetitive injury. Eventually, she received arthroscopic surgery in July 1999. When she was back to work in September 1999, she began to engage in the repeated use fingers work. Result, she unfortunately suffer from a double wrist tunnel syndrome tunnel syndrome treatment received left wrist surgery, and on January 23, 2001, April 24, 2001, to accept the right wrist tunnel syndrome treatment surgery. In court, Eberhardt claimed her right hand is more serious than the left hand, even after surgery, she still felt the finger, palm numbness, tingling, poor hand coordination ability.

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