The effect of arm and wrist supports on the load of the upper extremity during VDU work

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages

  Visser, Bart ^a   De Korte, Elsbeth ^a   Van Der Kraan, Ingrid ^a   Kuijer, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arm support; Discomfort; EMG; Ergonomic aids; Perceived workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE TONE; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; SHOULDER; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; WORKLOAD; WRIST;

ADULT; ARM; COMPUTER TERMINALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SHOULDER; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WRIST;

EID: 0033754554     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(00)00058-9     Document Type: Article

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