Posture Analyses and Biomechanical Evaluation of Urban Pruning Activities

Nunes, Valdirene Henrique and Carmo, Flávio Cipriano de Assis do and Morais, Yasmim Yathiara Gomes Araújo and Souto, Patrícia Carneiro and Ferreira, Vinicius Staynne Gomes and Bakke, Hanne Alves and Guimarães, Pompeu Paes and Moreira, Giselle Lemos (2019) Posture Analyses and Biomechanical Evaluation of Urban Pruning Activities. Journal of Experimental Agriculture International, 29 (2). pp. 1-10. ISSN 24570591

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Abstract

The pruning of urban trees is one of the practices used to adapt the projections of the branches to the inserted environment. The objective of this study was to analyze biomechanical factors such as posture and weight management in manual urban pruning activities in the city of Patos - Paraíba. The research was carried out with the employees responsible for the pruning activity of trees. For the posture analysis, the was use a photographic camera, followed by the movements and positions in each activity performed and then analyzed each shoot. The video was performed with the monitoring of the movements of the profile with the intention of observing the joints at the moment of work. For the biomechanical analysis, we used the weighing of the tools used, using a precision scale. The results showed that the highest percentage of the postures adopted in urban pruning activities, was considered adequate according to the OWAS method, obtaining a higher percentage of classes 1 and 2. However, the drag activity was the only classified in the class that requires measures as soon as possible and that risk may occur in the spine, so that corrective measures are necessary to implement it. Among all the activities analyzed, the knee and ankle joints presented a percentage of compression, due to the worker maintaining the flexed legs most of the time.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Article Archives > Agricultural and Food Science
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Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2023 06:15
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2024 04:34
URI: http://archive.paparesearch.co.in/id/eprint/962

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