Do specially designed visual display unit lenses create increased postural load compared with single-vision lenses during visual display unit work?

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 112-120

  Horgen, Gunnar ^a   Aarås, Arne ^a   Kaiser, Helene ^a   Thoresen, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Progressive lenses; Visual display units

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TERMINALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PRODUCT DESIGN;

SPECTACLE LENSES;

CONTACT LENSES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

EID: 0036180375     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200202000-00013     Document Type: Article

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