Box tilt and knee motions in manual lifting: Two differential factors in expert and novice workers

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 12, Issue 7-8, 1997, Pages 419-428

  Gagnon, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Box tilt; Expertise; Joint loadings; Knee motions; Lifting

Indexed keywords

FORCE MEASUREMENT; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; SAFE HANDLING; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

BOX TILT; KNEE FLEXION; MANUAL LIFTING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MATERIALS HANDLING; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SHOULDER; TECHNIQUE; TILTING; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0031253617     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(97)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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