Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Assessment of skeletal muscle fatigue of road maintenance workers based on heart rate monitoring and myotonometry | Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology BioMed Central Research Open Access Assessment of skeletal muscle fatigue of road maintenance workers based on heart rate monitoring and myotonometry Zenija Roja1 Valdis Kalkis 1 Arved Vain2 Henrijs Kalkis3 and Maija Eglite4 Address 1 Faculty of Chemistry University of Latvia Kr. Valdemara 48 Riga LV-1013 Latvia institute of Experimental Physics and Technology University of Tartu Tahe 4 Tartu 51010 Estonia 3Faculty of Economics and Management University of Latvia Aspazijas Riga LV-1050 Latvia and institute of Occupational and Environmental Health Riga Stradins University Dzirciema 16 Riga LV-1007 Latvia Email Zenija Roja - Valdis Kalkis - Arved Vain - Henrijs Kalkis - Maija Eglite - Corresponding author Published 27 July 2006 Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2006 1 20 doi 1745-6673-1-20 Received 29 January 2006 Accepted 27 July 2006 This article is available from http content 1 1 20 2006 Roja et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objective This research work is dedicated to occupational health problems caused by ergonomic risks. The research object was road building industry where workers have to work very intensively have long work hours are working in forced constrained work postures and overstrain during the work specific parts of their bodies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the work heaviness degree and to estimate the muscle fatigue of workers after one week work cycle. The study group consisted of 10 road construction and maintenance workers and 10 pavers aged between 20 and 60 years. Methods .
