Abstract
Among the most prevalent occupational diseases are the Repetitive Strain Injury and Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (RSI/WRMD), which are directly related to the organization of the work that ignores the limits of the body and the uniqueness of each worker. The study main focus was to investigate the significance of the body at work in individuals diagnosed with lesion/disturb. To achieve the proposed objective, a case study was held in a qualitative approach, which is based in the socio-historical theory of psychology. The means used to achieve the data was through individual open interviews with nine subjects whom had been diagnosed with RSI/WRMD and were accompanied at the Worker's Health Reference Center in Botucatu (São Paulo, Brazil). As a result, three meaning cores have been revealed: need to work - the ‘body’ in motion; body submission - lack of autonomy/power; and prevented body — ‘I caught, I stopped in my life’. In addition to these, meanings and explanatory material have composed the illustrator scheme of results of this research. The phrase that best defines the whole process of health/disease measured in the interviews according to the scenario reported by the individuals is ‘The extravagance of working sick’, and the product of this, is an uncertain future.
Keywords
RSI-WRMD; significance of the body; occupational diseases; occupational health; work organization