Impact loading characteristics of the hand during backward fall arrest

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED

Volumn 42, Issue , 1999, Pages 643-644

  Kim, Kyu Jung ^a   Cooney, William P ^a   Kaufman, Kenton R ^a   An, Kai Nan ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MUSCLE; ORTHOPEDICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURES; INJURY MECHANISMS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

EID: 0033299941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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4. Semaan, I., and Saffar, P.H. (1995) "Pathomechanism of intra-articular distal radial fractures" In: Fractures of the distal radius, Saffar, P. and Cooney, W.P. III (eds), Martin Dunitz Ltd, London.