Are laboratory researchers at risk for repetitive motion injuries?
Most certainly! Laboratory researchers are at risk for repetitive motion injuries during routine laboratory procedures such as pipetting, working at microscopes, operating microtomes, using cell counters and even using video display terminals. Depending on how these tasks are performed researchers are exposed to multiple repetitive motion injury risk factors such as poor postures, dynamic and or static work (often times both are occurring but to different body parts, contact stress, forceful exertions, and long task durations.
