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Most people involved in administrative or professional positions do not realize they have the same rights and benefits to Workers' Compensation benefits as people involved in laboring positions. While accidents in office environments are less frequent, they certainly occur. » If you are suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, pain in joints, back ache or got into an accident while at work - Contact Chicago workers compensation lawyer & attorney, Joseph J. Spingola for legal advice - Click here now!Lower back injuries are as much a risk to administrative personnel as they are to any other form of employment, when attempting to lift or move heavy objects, which may include desks, package deliveries, and boxes of paper. Slip and fall injuries occur in non-carpeted areas where floors may be slippery or defective. Any person engaged in administrative work, whether clerical or professional, is subject to all the same hazards for injury as anyone else when they are required to do any work outside the office environment. Clerks or secretaries delivering packages to nearby offices on foot may confront injury at any point enroute to their destination and back. When using vehicular transportation, the risk of injury from motor vehicle collision is as likely as any other risk common to that person's community. Salesmen and executives fall into this latter category. Salesmen are constantly driving from location to location to promote the employer's business. When doing so, almost any type of injury may occur. Probably the most common injury claimed by clerical staff is carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), an inflammatory condition of the wrists generally attributed to typing. Almost always, the condition is initially diagnosed as tendonitis. However, as the use of the hand(s) continues tendonitis advances until surgery must be performed. Workstations have been designed with keyboards at hand level, which is believed to reduce the strain on ones wrists when typing. However, with the explosive use of computers, many people still work with a keyboard at desk height, requiring them to maintain their hands and wrists in a bent position for an excessive period of time, resulting in the development of tendonitis and eventually carpal tunnel syndrome. ____________________________________________________________________
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