The Health and Safety Executive has produced new guidelines on what it calls "work-based upper limb disorders".

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Many believe this is pain related only to physical factors frequent repetitive movements of the upper limb.

CNN: Strains in the Workplace

"The results of this program will help upper-limb amputees and spinal cord injury patients, as well as those who have lost the ability to use their natural limbs, to have as normal a life as possible despite severe injuries or degenerative neurological disease, " McLoughlin said.

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