Grip forces of the fingertips

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 515-520

  Freund, Jouni ^a   Toivonen, Risto ^a   Takala, Esa Pekka ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cylindrical handle; Distribution of forces; Grip force; Modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GRIP FORCES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FORCE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0036706617     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(02)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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