Determination of the effect of lift characteristics on dynamic performance profiles during manual materials handling tasks

Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 126-145

  Khalaf, K A ^a,b   Parnianpour, M ^a   Sparto, P J ^a   Barin, K ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Ergonomic intervention; Feature extraction; Low back disorder; Manual materials handling; Performance assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DATA BASE; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINETICS; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MATERIALS HANDLING; MODEL; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; VELOCITY; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; JOINTS; LIFTING; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; WEIGHT-BEARING; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 0033008681     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401399185847     Document Type: Article

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