Mechanical loading of the low back and shoulders during pushing and pulling activities

Ergonomics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-18

  Hoozemans, Marco J M ^a   Kuijer, P Paul F M ^a,b   Kingma, Idsart ^b   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^b   De Vries, Wiebe H K ^a,b   Van Der Woude, Luc H V ^b   Veeger, Dirk Jan H E J ^b,c   Van Der Beek, Allard J ^a   Frings Dresen, Monique H W ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cart weight; Exerted forces; Handle height; Initial forces; Physical workload; Sustained forces

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LOADING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS (GEE); MECHANICAL LOADS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; FORCE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMERUS; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHOULDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT BEARING; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERTION; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SHOULDER; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0842307207     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130310001593577     Document Type: Article

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