Prevalence of vibration-induced white finger and assessment of vibration exposure among travertine workers in Italy

1988 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bovenzi ◽  
A. Franzinelli ◽  
F. Strambi
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Exposure ◽  
Vibration Induced White Finger

A method to quantify hand-transmitted vibration exposure based on the biodynamic stress concept

2007 ◽  
Vol 221 (8) ◽  
pp. 847-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
R G Dong ◽  
D E Welcome ◽  
J Z Wu
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Equivalent Model ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Vibration Exposure ◽  
Stress Cycle ◽  
Vibration Induced White Finger ◽  
Frequency Weightings

This study generally hypothesized that the vibration-induced biodynamic stress and number of its cycles in a substructure of the hand-arm system play an important role in the development of vibration-induced disorders in the substructure. As the first step to test this hypothesis, the specific aims of this study were to develop a practical method to quantify the biodynamic stress-cycle measure, to compare it with ISO-weighted and unweighted accelerations, and to assess its potential for applications. A mechanical-equivalent model of the system was established using reported experimental data. The model was used to estimate the average stresses in the fingers and palm. The frequency weightings of the stresses in these substructures were derived using the proposed stress-cycle measure. This study found the frequency dependence of the average stress distributed in the fingers is different from that in the palm. Therefore, this study predicted that the frequency dependencies of finger disorders could also be different from those of the disorders in the palm, wrist, and arms. If vibration-induced white finger (VWF) is correlated better with unweighted acceleration than with ISO-weighted acceleration, the biodynamic stress distributed in the fingers is likely to play a more important role in the development of VWF than is the biodynamic stress distributed in the other substructures of the hand-arm system. The results of this study also suggest that the ISO weighting underestimates the high-frequency effect on the finger disorder development but it may provide a reasonable risk assessment of the disorders in the wrist and arm.

Is Vibration-Induced White finger A Reversible Syndrome If Vibration Is Stopped?

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 750-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. ÖSTMAN ◽  
G. LUNDBORG ◽  
S. BORNMYR ◽  
B. LILJA
Keyword(s):  
Provocation Test ◽  
Vibration Exposure ◽  
Subjective Improvement ◽  
Ship Building ◽  
Cold Provocation Test ◽  
Cold Provocation ◽  
Vibration Induced White Finger

The purpose of the study was to investigate if vibration-induced white finger may be a reversible symptom after cessation of vibration exposure. Fifty-nine welders, previously employed by a ship building company and who had shown various levels of vibration-induced vasospastic symptoms in the hand were interviewed 5 to 6 years after closure of the company. Out of the 43 patients exposed to no or insignificant vibration subsequently, 28 claimed improvement, 11 claimed unchanged problems and four complained of worse problems. Twelve of these patients had the cold provocation test repeated at follow up. One patient showed the same result as 5 years earlier, six showed improvement and five showed much improvement. Of 16 patients with continued vibration exposure none showed subjective improvement, nine claimed unchanged problems while seven patients were worse. It is concluded that vibration-induced white finger is not a progressive condition following cessation of exposure to vibration. On the contrary it may be static or even reversible to some extent.

State of hormonal regulation in experimental animals exposed to noise and vibration

2020 ◽  
pp. 680-681
Author(s):  
A. V. Lizarev ◽  
V. A. Pankov
Keyword(s):  
Blood Plasma ◽  
Hormonal Regulation ◽  
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone ◽  
Vibration Exposure ◽  
Noise And Vibration ◽  
Experimental Animals ◽  
In Blood Plasma

When exposed to noise and vibration in experimental animals there was a decrease in the content of threeiodinethyronine, thyroxin and adrenocorticotropic hormone in blood plasma after 15 and 30 days of experience. An increase in loads led to an increase in the level of threeiodinethyronine and thyroxin under vibration exposure and was normalized with noise. The content of adrenocorticotropic hormone leveled in both cases.

Neurophysiological and morphological effects in the post-exposure vibration period during experimental modeling

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-290
Author(s):  
Natalya L. Yakimova ◽  
Vladimir A. Pankov ◽  
Aleksandr V. Lizarev ◽  
Viktor S. Rukavishnikov ◽  
Marina V. Kuleshova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Evoked Potentials ◽  
Experimental Model ◽  
Visual Evoked Potentials ◽  
The Body ◽  
Behavioral Activity ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Vibration Exposure ◽  
Visual Evoked

Introduction. Vibration disease continues to occupy one of the leading places in the structure of professional pathology. In workers after the termination of contact with vibration generalization and progression of violations in an organism is noted. The pathogenetic mechanisms of the progredient course of disturbances in the nervous system in the post-contact period of vibration exposure remain insufficiently studied.The aim of the study was to test an experimental model of vibration exposure to assess the neurophysiological and morphological effects of vibration in rats in the dynamics of the post-contact period.Materials and methods. The work was performed on 168 white male outbred rats aged 3 months weighing 180–260 g. The vibration effect was carried out on a 40 Hz vibrating table for 60 days 5 times a week for 4 hours a day. Examination of animals was performed after the end of the physical factor, on the 30th, 60th and 120th day of the post-contact period. To assess the long-term neurophysiological and morphofunctional effects of vibration in rats, we used indicators of behavioral reactions, bioelectric activity of the somatosensory zone of the cerebral cortex, somatosensory and visual evoked potentials, parameters of muscle response, morphological parameters of nervous tissue.Results. In the dynamics of the post-contact period observed the preservation of violations of tentatively research, motor and emotional components of behavior. In the Central nervous system instability of activity of rhythms of an electroencephalogram, decrease in amplitude of visual evoked potentials, lengthening of latency of somatosensory evoked potentials, decrease in total number of normal neurons and astroglia is established. In the peripheral nervous system remained changes in indicators: increasing duration and latency, reducing the amplitude of the neuromuscular response.Conclusions: The experimental model allows us to study the long-term neurophysiological and morphological effects of vibration on the body. The formation and preservation of changes in behavioral activity, neurophysiological and morphological effects of vibration from the 30th to the 120th day of the post-contact period were confirmed.

scholarly journals Vibration Exposure and Transmissibility on Dentist’s Anatomy: A Study of Micro Motors and Air-Turbines

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4084
Author(s):  
Harish Kumar Banga ◽  
Pankaj Goel ◽  
Raman Kumar ◽  
Vikas Kumar ◽  
Parveen Kalra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
High Amplitude ◽  
Vibration Exposure ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Air Turbine ◽  
Test Of Homogeneity ◽  
Hand Piece ◽  
Vibration Transmissibility ◽  
Levene Test

The use of dental hand pieces endanger dentists to vibration exposure as they are subjected to very high amplitude and vibration frequency. This paper has envisaged a comparative analysis of vibration amplitudes and transmissibility during idling and drilling with micro motor (MM) and air-turbine (AT) hand pieces. The study aims to identify the mean difference in vibration amplitudes during idling, explore different grasp forces while drilling with irrigant injection by the dentist, and various vibration transmission of these hand pieces. The study utilized 22 separate frequency resonances on two new and eight used MMs and two new and eight used ATs of different brands by observing the investigator at 16 different dentist clinics. The study adopted a descriptive research design with non–probability sampling techniques for selecting dentists and hand pieces. Statistical methods like Levene Test of Homogeneity, Welch ANOVA, independent t-test, and Games–Howell test were utilized with SPSS version 22 and MS-Excel. The results reveal that vibration amplitudes and vibration transmissibility when measured at position 2 are higher than in another position 1. Vibrations during idling for used MMs are more than AT hand pieces, and the used MM (MUD) and used AT (AUA) hand pieces differ due to their obsolescence and over-usage. Vibration amplitudes increase every time with the tightening of grasping of the hand piece. Vibration amplitudes for each grasping style of MM hand piece differ from all other grasping styles of AT hand pieces. Routine exposure to consistent vibrations has ill physical, mental, and psychological effects on dentists. The used hand pieces more hazardous as compared to newer ones. The study suggests that these hand pieces must be replaced periodically, sufficient to break between two operations, especially after every hand piece usage. Hence, the present research work can be further extended by creating some control groups among dentists and then studying the vibration amplitude exposure of various dental hand pieces and subsequent transmissibility to their body parts.

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