Standing and very slow walking: Foot pain-pressure threshold, subjective pain experience and work activity

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 81-90

  Messing, Karen ^a   Kilbom, Åsa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Foot; Pain pressure threshold; Short distance walking; Standing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERGOMETRY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; SELF EXAMINATION; STANDING; WALKING;

EID: 0034747683     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-6870(00)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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