Load spatial pathway and spine loading: How does lift origin and destination influence low back response?

Ergonomics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1031-1046

  Davis, Kermit ^a   Marras, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifting; Manual material handling; Muscle recruitment strategy; Trunk motion

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LIFTING; MANUAL MATERIAL HANDLING; MUSCLE RECRUITMENT STRATEGY; TRUNK MOTION;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT LIFTING; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; BACK INJURIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LIFTING; MALE; POSTURE; RISK FACTORS; SPINE; WEIGHT-BEARING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 24644464767     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130500182247     Document Type: Article

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