Cumulative trauma disorders/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Cumulative trauma disorders.

Chronic dysfunction of muscle, nerve, and connective tissue due to repeated motions stressing a body part; the disorder may be of the directly stressed part or of, for example, a nerve compressed by an inflamed overused tendon