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Social security. Compensation for repetitive strain injury

Social security. Compensation for repetitive strain injury Compensation for Repetitive Strain Injury 1. INTRODUCTION As one legal commentator has rightly pointed out, the condition of `repetitive strain injury' (RSI) was not always so known: during the late 1970s it was entitled tenosynovitis, and later `occupational overuse injuries' (B. Langstaff, `Upper Limb Disorders: WorkRelated or Unrelated?' (1994) 1 Journal of Personal Injury Litigation 14). The condition is now formally known as Work Related Upper Limb Disorders (WRULDs), as the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) has held that this is a more medically accurate term, although it does cover a wide variety of musculoskeletal disorders (IIAC, Work Related Upper Limb Disorders, May 1992, Cmnd 1936). Nevertheless, RSI is still very much a term of popular usage, and the two may be used interchangeably. From any objective standpoint, it is clear that medical commentary on RSI is distinguished by a certain vagueness and inability to confine the term to definite and comprehensive categories; neither does it constitute a term used as a distinct medical diagnosis (A. Yassi, `Repetitive Strain Injuries' (1997) 394 Lancet 943). For instance, McConnell can only explain it in terms of a cumulative trauma disorder which results from the overrepetitive use of the fingers, hands, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Industrial Law Journal Oxford University Press

Social security. Compensation for repetitive strain injury

Larkin, P
Industrial Law Journal , Volume 29 (1) – Mar 1, 2000
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0305-9332
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Compensation for Repetitive Strain Injury 1. INTRODUCTION As one legal commentator has rightly pointed out, the condition of `repetitive strain injury' (RSI) was not always so known: during the late 1970s it was entitled tenosynovitis, and later `occupational overuse injuries' (B. Langstaff, `Upper Limb Disorders: WorkRelated or Unrelated?' (1994) 1 Journal of Personal Injury Litigation 14). The condition is now formally known as Work Related Upper Limb Disorders (WRULDs), as the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) has held that this is a more medically accurate term, although it does cover a wide variety of musculoskeletal disorders (IIAC, Work Related Upper Limb Disorders, May 1992, Cmnd 1936). Nevertheless, RSI is still very much a term of popular usage, and the two may be used interchangeably. From any objective standpoint, it is clear that medical commentary on RSI is distinguished by a certain vagueness and inability to confine the term to definite and comprehensive categories; neither does it constitute a term used as a distinct medical diagnosis (A. Yassi, `Repetitive Strain Injuries' (1997) 394 Lancet 943). For instance, McConnell can only explain it in terms of a cumulative trauma disorder which results from the overrepetitive use of the fingers, hands,

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