Low-back stresses when learning to use a materials handling device

Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-110

  Chaffin, Don B ^a   Stump, Benjamin S ^a   Nussbaum, Maury A ^a   Baker, Gerri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Materials handling; Materials handling aids; Motor learning; Torso biomechanics; Torso EMGs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LEARNING; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS; TRUNK;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LIFTING; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; WEIGHT-BEARING; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 0033048235     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401399185829     Document Type: Article

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