The effect of loads carried on the shoulders

Military Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 597-599

  Vacheron, Jean Jacques ^a   Poumarat, Georges ^a   Chandezon, Roger ^a   Vanneuville, Guy ^b  

^a Lab de la Performance Motrice   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SHOE; SHOULDER; SIMULATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0032816561     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/164.8.597     Document Type: Article

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