| Abstract |
People with cerebral palsy (CP) are functionally restricted to differing degrees due to a decrease of main control and coordination of movements. Although inherently different in causation, physical disabilities faced by CP patients might also be experienced by rice farmers due to the risky working environment and unsafe working posture. This article provides a constrained review of available ergonomic interventions for patients with CP disability that bear prospect to be applicable to rice farmers. All papers were retrieved from the last 20-years collection from nine major search engines, including: “Scopus”, “Web of Science”, “CINAHL”, “Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews”, “Education Source”, “ERIC”, “Journals@OVID”, “MEDLINE”, and “PASCAL”. Specified terms of “ergonomic interventions”, “congenital disability”, “cerebral palsy”, and “orthoses” were used as search keywords. Two independent reviewers defined whether the articles complied to the inclusion criteria of: (1) a review or the next best available; (2) contains ergonomic interventions; and (3) more than 25% of participants were persons with CP. So far, there were 21 articles relating to the research of ergonomic interventions for people with CP. The interventions studied in those articles were categorized as: (1) engineering, (2) administrative and, (3) behavioral interventions. Detailed discussions regarding to adaptability of each intervention were then provided in terms of capability for assistance, improvement and prevention of MSD problems. Types of intervention for CP patients that might be adaptable for farmers were discussed, along with related examples that had been proposed for reducing risk of injury among paddy field farming workers. In general, the findings indicated most adapted interventions were based on educational programs, with no attempt to adapt engineering interventions from CPs for farmers. We recommended that a certain combination of engineering and administrative interventions for CPs treatment, with slight modifications, may be applicable to farmers for preventing risky environmental conditions and unsafe working postures. |
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