Muscle fatigue and fatigue-related biomechanical changes during a cyclic lifting task

Spine

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1810-1820

  Bonato, P ^a,b   Ebenbichler, Gerold R ^c,d,e   Roy, S H ^a   Lehr, S ^f   Posch, M ^f   Kollmitzer, J ^c   Della Croce, U ^f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Rehabilitation Hospital Weisser Hof   (Austria)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Biomechanics of lifting; Dynamic muscle contraction; Low back pain; Muscle impairment; Surface electromyographicicy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TORQUE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIFTING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE;

EID: 0042474414     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000087500.70575.45     Document Type: Article

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