Validation of a frequency-weighted filter for continuous biomechanical stress in repetitive wrist flexion tasks against a load

Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 476-484

  Lin, Mei Li ^a   Radwin, Robert G ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Discomfort; Electrogoniometer; Force; Psychophysics; Wrist

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIGITAL FILTERS; GONIOMETERS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

ELECTROGONIOMETERS; FREQUENCY WEIGHTED FILTERS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; FILTER; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WRIST;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WEIGHT-BEARING; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0032055413     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401398186955     Document Type: Article

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