Mel,
The definition is the work of the authority, forums is mine - just goes to
show how uneducated I am.
Cheers,
Anna.
Anna Lee
Principal,
Work Ready Industrial Athlete Centre
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Sent: Friday, 23 February 2001 11:15
Subject: Occupational Stress Syndrome
> On 2/22/01, Anna Lee<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
> <<As I said in a previous posting on 19 & 21.2.01, which do not appear to
> have been circulated, this rose is known by any other name in any other
> country. Many terms/names make it a little confusing and
>
> perhaps we need to standardise internationally......
>
> The term Occupational Overuse Syndrome (OOS) was adopted in Australia
> following consultative public forums co-ordinated by the National
> Occupational Health and Safety Commission, a tripartite body established
by
> the Commonwealth Government to develop, facilitate and implement a
national
> occupational health and safety strategy.
>
>
> The forums were open to all professionals (and public) interested (not
just
> physios) and included ergonomists, doctors, physiologists, psychologists,
> occupational therapists, chiropractors etc etc. They involved long, in
depth
> discussions and were held at major cities and regional areas. >>
>
> ***This is all beginning to sound like something out of "Alice in
> Wonderland", namely something like "It
> means just what I say it should mean; nothing more, nothing less!",
applied
> with just the right hint of authoritarianism and impatience! Most
relevant
> that those words should have been penned by Hodgson (Carroll etc), a
> mathematician and definition specialist, by trade. How interesting that
> above Oz comment was - with its insistence on precision of definition, it
> still failed to use the correct Latin plural form of forum, namely "fora".
> Ah well, just another case of more theory than practice - but that, of
> course, is one of the sad truths about a great deal of many therapies
today,
> anyway :)
>
> Dr Mel C Siff
> Denver, USA
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
>
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