Thumb force and muscle loads are influenced by the design of a mechanical pipette and by pipetting tasks

Human Factors

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-76

  Asundi, Krishna R ^a,b   Bach, Joel M ^a,c   Rempel, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; LOADS (FORCES); VISCOSITY;

HIGH VISCOSITY FLUIDS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS; PIPETTING; THUMB FORCE;

MUSCLE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PIPETTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TRAINING; VISCOSITY; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THUMB;

EID: 17844361896     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/0018720053653848     Document Type: Article

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