Aircrew lumbar supports: An update

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 321-324

  Winfield, D A ^a  

^a RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lumbar supports

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FATIGUE; FLYING; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; SEAT; SITTING;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; BACK PAIN; BRACES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032932695     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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