Weight and frequency effect on spinal loading in a bricklaying task

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1425-1433

  De Looze, M P ^a   Visser, B ^a   Houting, I ^a   Van Rooy, M A G ^a   Van Dieen J H ^b   Toussaint, H M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Ergonomics; Manual materials handling; Spinal compression; Spinal shrinkage

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CREEP; ERGONOMICS; LOADING;

BRICKLAYING TASK; SPINAL LOADING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; BUILDING; COMPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MATERIALS HANDLING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; WEIGHT;

EID: 0030296246     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(96)84538-6     Document Type: Article

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