Check-in and Registration for Morning Workshop

Sunday workshop location only:
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue

Pre-Conference Workshop:

Physical exposure assessment of hand activities

Break (lunch not provided)

Check-in and Registration for Afternoon Workshops

Sunday workshop location only:
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue

Pre-Conference Workshops:

Surface electromyography — to identify pathophysiological mechanisms and to assess exposure

Tendencias Actuales en la Epidemiología Musculoesqueletal [Current trends in musculoskeletal epidemiology] — in Spanish with Portuguese interpretation available

Reception at the Skywalk Observatory

Check-In and Registration

Opening Session, Official Welcome

Two keynotes:

1. Hester Lipscomb — Work and health disparities: challenges in studying vulnerable workers

2. Lys Esther Rocha — International disparities in development and how they impact work-related musculoskeletal disorder prevention

Coffee/Tea Break

A. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

MA1S - Gendered exposures and their consequences (symposium)

MA2O - Muscle and injury physiology

MA3O - Exposure: human-computer interfaces

MA4O - After the injury: return-to-work and other outcomes

Lunch

B. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

MB1O - MSDs in children and adolescents

MB2O - Innovative approaches to surveillance

MB3O - Biomechanical effects of interventions

MB4S - Engaging the workplace in safe and sustained return to work — what are the key competencies? (symposium)

Coffee/Tea Break

MP1P - Poster Session I

C. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

MC1S - The use of myofeedback in prevention and treatment of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (symposium)

MC2S - Engaging return-to-work stakeholders (symposium)

MC3O - Exposure: living with variability

Morning Plenary: Two keynotes

1. Leslie Boden — Social and economic costs to workers with musculoskeletal disorders

2. Hilkka Riihimäki — Workplace intervention studies for MSD prevention (Asa Kilbom Memorial Lecture)

Coffee/Tea Break

A. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

TA1S - Economic evaluations in research on work-related musculoskeletal disorders (symposium)

TA2O - CTS and other upper extremity disorders

TA3S - Development and application of tools for evaluating interventions to prevent musculoskeletal disorders (symposium)

TA4O - Biomechanics: applied and experimental studies

Lunch

Lunchtime Roundtable Discussion (optional): Corporate social responsibility and occupational health

B. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

TB1O - Exposure assessment: methods and tools

TB2S - The Cinderella Hypothesis revisited: consequences for prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (symposium)

TB3O - MSD epidemiology: exposure-response patterns and interventions

TB4O - Intervention research: state-of-art methods

Coffee/Tea Break

TP1P - Poster Session II

C. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

TC1O - Intervention research: techniques and tools

TC2O - Epidemiology of back disorders

TC3O - Exposure assessment studies from three continents

Morning Plenary: Two keynotes

1. Leslie MacDonald — Work organization and risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders

2. Jos Twisk— Multi-level modeling in the analysis of work-related health problems

Coffee/Tea Break

Lunch

Lunchtime Roundtable Discussion (optional): A conversation with injured worker advocates and research scientists

B. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

WB1O - Exposures and interventions in healthcare

WB2O - Risk factors for disability outcomes

WB3S - What can the insides of muscles tell us about low level work, stress and pain? (symposium)

WB4S - NIOSH Consortium studies of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (symposium)

Coffee/Tea Break

WP1P Poster Session III

C. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

WC1O - Why are we discussing mental health at PREMUS?

WC2S - Manual handling of patients in the European Union (symposium)

WC3S - Inflammatory factors in the development of musculoskeletal disorders (symposium)

Dinner Cruise on Boston Harbor

Morning plenary: One keynote

Jaap van Dieën — Injury models in observational and experimental research

Coffee/Tea Break

A. Parallel Sessions: Contributed Papers

RA1S - Musculoskeletal disorders: mechanisms of injury (symposium)

RA2S - Physical activity programmes in the secondary prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (symposium)

RA3O - Construction and heavy vehicle operation

Closing Remarks

Tours

Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety (13:00–18:00)

Outing to Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor (13:00–18:00)

Lowell and the American Industrial Revolution: Work, Water Power, and Weaving (12:30–18:30)