Measurement of angular wrist neutral zone and forearm muscle activity

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 671-677

  Fagarasanu, Mircea ^a   Kumar, Shrawan ^a   Narayan, Yogesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forearm muscles EMG; Wrist deviation; Wrist neutral zone

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; FEEDBACK; GONIOMETERS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ELECTROGONIOMETER; MUSCLE ACTIVITY; NEUTRAL ZONE;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; GONIOMETRY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WRIST;

EID: 3342953877     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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