Anticipatory postural adjustments in the back and leg lift

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1216-1224

  Toussaint, Huub M ^a,b   Commissaris, Dianne A C M ^a   Beek, Peter J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Balance; Dynamic Task; Human; Lifting; Lifting technique; Movement control; Postural control; Spinal loading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0030885431     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199709000-00015     Document Type: Article

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