Fatigue-life of two manual wheelchair cross-brace designs

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1078-1081

  Cooper, Rory A ^a,b,c,d   DiGiovine, Carmen P ^a,b,c   Rentschler, Andrew ^a,b,c   Lawrence, Brad M ^c   Boninger, Michael L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Human Engineering Research Laboratories   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACE; EQUIPMENT; MECHANICS; SAFETY; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 0032871312     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(99)90064-3     Document Type: Article

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