4.2.2. Body Stressing and Mechanisms of Injury
Figure 3 (below) shows the number of cases attributed to Body
stressing over the period from 1998 to 2003 (2003 data is
provisional). From this NDS data, it was evident that for all 6 years,
the majority (approximately 50 %) of such cases were associated
with muscular stress while lifting, carrying or putting down objects.
The second most commonly attributed cause of body stressing
(attributed mechanism of injury) was muscular stress while handling
objects other than lifting, carrying or putting down, accounting for
approximately one-third of all body stressing cases. The mechanism
repetitive movements, low muscle loading was least often the
attributed cause of body stressing cases.