Trunk rotation monitor using angular velocity sensors

Industrial Health

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 222-228

  Seo, Akihiko ^a   Uda, Shinichi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angular velocity; Asymmetric work; Low back pain; Trunk rotation; Working posture

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ROTATION; SENSOR; TRUNK; VELOCITY;

EID: 0030984778     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.35.222     Document Type: Article

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