Women's load carriage performance using modular lightweight load-carrying equipment

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 914-919

  Ling, Wen ^a   Houston, Vern ^b   Tsai, Yung Sheng ^a   Chui, Kevin ^a   Kirk, John ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HIP; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MODULAR LIGHTWEIGHT LOAD CARRYING EQUIPMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PELVIS; SHOULDER; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING; ADOLESCENT; BIOENGINEERING; EVALUATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLDIER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 16644389612     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.11.914     Document Type: Article

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