The Distribution of Forces between the Upper and Lower Back during Load Carriage

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 460-467

  LaFiandra, Michael ^a,b   Harman, Everett ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Boston Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

Backpack; Dimensionless analysis; Kinetics

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILIAC CREST; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MASS; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SACRUM; SHOULDER; TREADMILL; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BACK PAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 1542316761     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000117113.77904.46     Document Type: Article

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