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Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder
OBJECTIVES: To investigate if typing speed is proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder (WRULD). DESIGN: Standardized functional typing test with participants scoring pain before and after typing; calculation of typing speed. PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-n...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22299070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/shorts.2011.010143 |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To investigate if typing speed is proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder (WRULD). DESIGN: Standardized functional typing test with participants scoring pain before and after typing; calculation of typing speed. PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-nine patients and six controls. SETTING: Tertiary hospital centre for hand and upper limb pain. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Pain (VAS 0–10) and calculation of typing speed as words per minute. RESULTS: Three subgroups of patients were found based on their typing speed: fast, slow and intermediate. Two-tailed student T-test with P level at 0.05 was used for evaluation. The typing speeds were significantly different between all three patient groups (P < 0.05). The typing speed was significantly faster in the fastest patient group than in the control group (P = 0.04) and the slow and middle groups (P = < 0.0001). The pain before typing was highest in the ‘slow’ group, in both hands but this difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Typing speed is not proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with WRULD. Patients with statistically significant slower or faster typing speeds do not have statistically different levels of pain. |
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spelling | pubmed-32691012012-02-01 Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder Povlsen, Bo JRSM Short Rep Research OBJECTIVES: To investigate if typing speed is proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder (WRULD). DESIGN: Standardized functional typing test with participants scoring pain before and after typing; calculation of typing speed. PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-nine patients and six controls. SETTING: Tertiary hospital centre for hand and upper limb pain. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Pain (VAS 0–10) and calculation of typing speed as words per minute. RESULTS: Three subgroups of patients were found based on their typing speed: fast, slow and intermediate. Two-tailed student T-test with P level at 0.05 was used for evaluation. The typing speeds were significantly different between all three patient groups (P < 0.05). The typing speed was significantly faster in the fastest patient group than in the control group (P = 0.04) and the slow and middle groups (P = < 0.0001). The pain before typing was highest in the ‘slow’ group, in both hands but this difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Typing speed is not proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with WRULD. Patients with statistically significant slower or faster typing speeds do not have statistically different levels of pain. Royal Society of Medicine Press 2012-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3269101/ /pubmed/22299070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/shorts.2011.010143 Text en © 2012 Royal Society of Medicine Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Povlsen, Bo Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder |
title | Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder |
title_full | Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder |
title_fullStr | Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder |
title_full_unstemmed | Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder |
title_short | Is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder |
title_sort | is typing speed proportional to the severity of pain in keyboard workers with work-related upper limb disorder |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22299070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/shorts.2011.010143 |
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