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La evaluación de los movimientos repetidos en miembro superior. El Método OCRA
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ISSN: 1692-1879
EISSN: 2619-5879
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Castillo-Martínez, Juan A
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The impact on the Colombian economy because of the injuries associated to the repetitive movements inthe Upper Limb in the health of the Colombian workers has such a magnitude that many of these syndromes (associated with this type of tasks), are located among the first five causes of occupationaldisease in Colombia, affecting manly women.The morbidity for muscle skeletal disorders represent in Colombia 43 % of all the diagnoses of occupationaldisease. (Minproteccion, 2005). In agreement to information of FASECOLDA, 2005 of 1493 registeredoccupational diseases, 393 involve the Upper Limbs and they caused more of 7000 days per year ofdisability and loss of productivity.For the difficulties of identification, diagnose, treatment and rehabilitation, this type of injuries havebeen constituted a challenge for the security social system, the risks labor system and for the othersprofessionals.Therefore this paper show an analysis of the complexity that offers the study of the Upper Limbs, afterthe principal variables of analysis and finally there is studied the method OCRA (Occupational RepetitiveActions).