Product Description: NEW AND IMPROVED with a better format and additional information. Updated March 2016 The U.S. Citizenship Services (USCIS) administers a verbal test to all immigrants applying for citizenship. This study guide tutors Vietnamese speaking immigrants for the USCIS verbal citizenship test...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive resource provides a strong medical, ergonomic, and industrial foundation for understanding and managing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in business and industry. Addressing multiple perspectives ― including the individual worker, insurance companies, regulatory agencies, industry, and the medical community, this practical text provides an integrated approach to understanding and management of these conditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Overuse injuries of the musculoskeletal system are common occurrences. Yet most existing volumes on cumulative trauma disorders deal with the subject from an ergonomic and occupational therapy standpoint, and do not provide the all-encompassing synopsis that physicians demand...read more

Product Description: Easy to use--desktop set up with easel support and top spiral binding. Beautiful colored photos.

Takes a strong position against surgery to offer self-healing alternative therapies for carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive-strain injuries, from recognizing the symptoms to modifying a lifestyle and using nutrition and exercise.

An introduction to Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), tackling all the problems associated with the illness. It features advice about posture, positioning and ergonomic aids as well as pain management techniques to limit the damage already suffered and to foster a positive approach to the problem.

Product Description: This book provides a straightforward look at the topical subject of work related upper limb disorders. It offers readers an understanding of the nature of these disorders with particular reference to their history, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, musculoskeletal examination techniques and management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines repetitive strain injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, and tendinitis, their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Discusses the health consequences of computer use and offers advice on work stations, preventative and therapeutic exercises, and relaxation techniques (view table of contents)

Product Description: This practical text will teach therapists and occupational health professionals how to effectively manage and treat CTD patients. Readers will learn how to develop and critically analyze cumulative trauma disorder (CTD) programs and how to make practical ergonomic suggestions in the field...read more

Product Description: This text is an up-to-date, comprehensive clinical reference on the identification, treatment, and prevention of upper and lower extremity cumulative trauma disorders. In addition to epidemiology, routine treatment, preventative measures, legal ramifications, and management of these disorders, risk factors unique to CTDs are thoroughly discussed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines new treatment methods, products, and research, and focuses on alternatives to surgery and ergonomics to alleviate or prevent the condition (view table of contents)

Product Description: Written by a distinguished group of contributors, this book provides comprehensive information on both CTDs of the upper extremity and low back pain. Using a broad-based approach that is equally useful for physicians, surgeons, physical therapists, occupational safety personnel, engineers, and lawyers, Cumulative Trauma Disorders provides practical guidelines for CTD identification and control, including:Understanding current legal issues--including the OSHA Ergonomics Rule and the ADA--and their implications for workers and healthcare providers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Detailing medicolegal decisions involving soft tissue injuries, the expenses paid annually in personal injuries and workers' compensation, this volume includes recent references and augmentation of many recent concepts along with diagnostic and therapeutic interventions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Modern, repetitive jobs are physically disabling more and more workers. This syndrome is becoming recognized as one of the workplace diseases of the 1990s. The problem has, in fact, been around for centuries. But it is only in the last decade or so that it has reached epidemic proportions worldwide...read more

Describes the causes and symptoms of repetitive strain injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, and discusses diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Product Description: OSHA frequently requires companies to implement the type of program promoted in Cumulative Trauma Disorders, the first and only book to address both the medical and ergonomic aspects of cumulative trauma. This combination of conservative medical intervention and attention to ergonomic design of jobs creates the long-term cost control that companies are actively seeking...read more

Product Description: A discussion of the cumulative trauma disorders common in workers, highlighting the factors that could have an effect on treatment programs. The text covers diagnosis, treatment, and patient rehabilitation, and has brief sections on ergonomics and the legal responsibilities of physicians...read more

Offers practical advice on preventing sports injuries through exercise and training