Acute effects of vibration on peripheral blood flow in healthy subjects

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 663-669

  Egan, Cara E ^a   Espie, B H ^a   McGrann, S ^a   McKenna, Kathleen M ^a   Allen, Judith A ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finger blood flow; Hand vibration; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TOE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0029828394     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.10.663     Document Type: Article

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