FURTHER READING

• Books and Pamphlets

• The Display Screen Equipment Regulations

• HSE Publications

• Libraries

• Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide, Emil Pascarelli and Deborah Quilter, Wiley & Sons, 1994. 0-471-59533-0. Only available from the US.

• Coping Successfully with RSI, Maggie Black and Penny Gray. Sheldon Press, 1999. ISBN 0-85969-811-4. [Review]

• Repetitive Strain Injury. A handbook on prevention and recovery. David Ruegg, Largo, £8. ISBN 0953471802 [Review]

• Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction; v.1: Trigger Point Manual, Janet G. Travell and David G. Simons; Williams & Wilkins, 1983. ISBN 0-683-08366-X. 700 pages, £80 (approx.). Can be requested through your local library, though it may take a long time to come. This is the definitive work on trigger points. [Review]

• Acupuncture, Trigger Points and Musculoskeletal Pain, 2nd Ed., P. E. Baldry, Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 0-443-04580-1. 350pp, £35 (approx). [Review]

• Pain Erasure, Bonnie Prudden, Ballantine, 1982, ISBN 0-345-33102-8. Available from the Hale Clinic (0171-631-0156) or through the Internet. £15 (approx.) Also about trigger points, but written for the general reader.

• The Full Catastrophe: Using the Wisdom of your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Piatkus Press. This is about a meditation programme used at Boston University Medical School to help patients learn to deal with chronic pain. Accompanying tapes are available but have to be ordered from the US.

• The Challenge of Pain, by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, Penguin, 1988. Find out why it won't stop hurting.

• The Anatomy Colouring Book, by W. Kapit and L.M. Elson (2nd edition), Harper Collins, ISBN 0-06-455016-8.

Display Screen Equipment Regulations

• L26: "Display Screen Equipment Work: guidance on the 1992 Regulations". HMSO (Tel 0171-873-9090), £5.00.

HSE Publications

• IND(G)36L: "Working with VDUs "(free and available online)
• IND(G)90L: "Ergonomics at Work" (free)
• HS(G)60: "Work Related Upper Limb Disorders: A guide to Prevention", £3.75

Libraries

• London Hazards Centre. By arrangement.

• HSE. Open to the public 9 to 5 Monday through Friday.