Physical workload on upper extremities in various operations during machine milking

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-70

  Pinzke, Stefan ^a   Stål, Marianne ^a   Hansson, Gert Åke ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Electromyography; Ergonomics; Goniometer; Milk production; Muscle; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; HAND DISEASE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; WORKLOAD; WRIST DISEASE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORK;

EID: 0034955873     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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