A method for the risk assessment of biomechanical overload in hospital physiotherapists.

Background: In physiotherapists, biomechanical overload risk assessment (RA) is particularly complex due to the tasks' variability. The present study aims to propose a new methodology, named Whole Body RA Biomechanical Overload (WB-RAMBO), to assess the risk in the activities performed by physiotherapists.

Methods: Each type of intervention was broken down into elementary operations.