MANUAL HANDLING OF PATIENTS: CLINICAL EVALUATION OF SOME PARAMETERS CLINICAL-ANAMNESTIC IN HEALTH CARE MOVIMENTAZIONE MANUALE DEI PAZIENTI: VALUTAZIONE DI ALCUNI PARAMETRI CLINICO-ANAMNESTICI IN OPERATORI SANITARI

Background: The necessity to help hospitalized subjects with reduced or absent walking abilities exposes the workers to the risk of lesions, above all spinal lesions. It is essential therefore to reduce the risk through the introduction of correct procedures and devices as well as health surveillance and training. The Mapo index is a synthetic index to estimate the manual handling of patients assessment and it allows to give a quantitative valuation of risk level of health workers.