Pressure measurement of air cushions for SCI patients

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 666-670

  Tanimoto, Yoshio ^b   Takechi, Hideo ^b   Nagahata, Hidekazu ^c   Yamamoto, Hideki ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATIENT REHABILITATION; PERSONNEL; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; WHEELCHAIRS;

PRESSURE SORE; SPINAL CORD INJURY PATIENT; TEKSCAN PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; WHEELCHAIR CUSHION;

PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034206967     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.850412     Document Type: Article

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