Muscle strength, task performance and low back load in nurses

Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1095-1104

  De Looze, Michiel P ^a   Zinzen, Evert ^b   Caboor, Dirck ^b   Van Roy, Peter ^b   Clarijs, Jan P ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Mechanical load; Muscle strength; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; BIOMECHANICS; MUSCLE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PERSONNEL TESTING;

MECHANICAL LOAD; MUSCLE STRENGTH;

NURSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; RISK FACTOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0032145176     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401398186405     Document Type: Article

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