Is the trunk movement more perturbed after an asymmetric than after a symmetric perturbation during lifting?

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1071-1077

  Van Der Burg, J C E ^a   Kingma, Idsart ^a   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymmetric loading; Lifting; Perturbation; Stability; Symmetric loading

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

MUSCLE ACTIVITY; TRUNK DYNAMICS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFTING EFFORT; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRUNK;

ADULT; BACK INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; LIFTING; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MOVEMENT; SACRUM;

EID: 2542433997     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2003.11.016     Document Type: Article

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