how can i test if jewelry making can cause hand injuries?

[shaughtygrl96]

I need this question to be answered. I can not survey people or experiement on people. How can I test if jewelry making can cause hand injuries by repeating steps over and over again

[deleted-71615]

Hi, I think you are trying to determine whether jewelry making cause repetitive motion injuries. Repetitive motion injuries occur when the body cannot repair tears in tissue and it included carpal tunnel syndrome and tendinitis. You might found different studies and agencies that track repetitive motion injuries.

[donnahardy2]

Hi,

This is a very unique idea for a science project. Troy has given a good suggestion to look for studies in the literature on this topic, and I agree that this would be a good place to start. One problem I could see in doing a preliminary search is that it’s hard to find literature published in scientific journals on this topic, but do try.

Repetitive stress injury must be common among jewelry makers because there seems to be lots of information on this topic. Here is a non-scientific website that describes the problem and includes specific suggestions for preventing the problem when making jewelry.

http://www.jewelrylessons.com/article/h ... ss-injurie

You definitely could not do a science project involving an experiment on humans on this topic, but I don’t understand why you could not do a survey. And, a well-designed survey would be a good way for you to investigate the topic and would be perfectly acceptable at a science fair. Here is information from the Science Buddies website on doing a survey project:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... g77bgclmby

To do a survey project on humans, you would need preapproval from your local scientific review committee and you would need a signed informed consent forms from all of your participants. This process takes extra time, but would definitely be worthwhile because it would allow you to do this very unique investigation.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ects.shtml

However, if your teacher said a survey would not be acceptable for purposes of the class assignment, then you would need to find something else to do. Perhaps you could design a new ergonomic tool for making jewelry (this would be an engineering project).

Let us know if you have any other questions.


Donna Hardy